My fourth and fifth graders completed this fun project recently when I had a substitute teacher in the art room. They looked at artist M.C. Escher’s “Drawing Hands” for inspiration, and drawing all those straight lines gave them some good practice using their rulers too! M.C. Escher’s “Drawing Hands” Special thanks to fellow South Elementary [...]
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First graders began exploring color this week by meeting….Roy G. Biv. As they created their own Rainbow Roys, they became experts at recognizing the colors of the rainbow – Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet! Check out the rainbow order teeth! Color Mixing – Painting Roy’s Hair This lesson is borrowed from Mrs. Bumgardner’s 1st Grade Classroom Blog. Thanks [...]
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After completing their figure gesture drawing practice, my 4th grade artists are now practicing drawing figures using wood mannequins. Such concentration! We are following up this figure drawing work with a large single figure drawing. My students are learning about body proportion and are even using some fractions as they work to make their figures [...]
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Fifth Graders are finishing up a great Salvador Dali project. They loved learning about the Surrealists and talking about their own “surreal” dreams, and found Dali’s attention-grabbing moustache very hilarious. After creating their portraits, they chose their own Dali-inspired backgrounds and pipe-cleaner moustache designs. Dali’s Many Moustaches This project is inspired by Anne at Useyourcoloredpencils@blogspot.com [...]
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Third grade artists have been exploring the abstract work of “Action Jackson” Pollock. Many of them loved his “drip paintings” and couldn’t wait to try his spatter technique! Sadly, I think our poor custodian, Mr. Rob, would freak out if we started throwing buckets of paint around on the art room floor….so we settled for [...]
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Second grade artists have started to explore the art of the Middle East – our cultural focus area for this school year. After examining Mrs. Brouwer’s carpet from Saudia Arabia, they created their own carpets by printing with tempera paint. Mrs. Brouwer’s carpet from Saudi Arabia. First graders were amazed at how heavy this carpet [...]
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My first grade artists will be exploring color over the next few weeks. We began with a little color “play” as we created these beautiful giant acorns. We talked about earth tone colors, warm colors, and I discovered that some of my smart artist were familiar with neutral colors! We read two books that inspired [...]
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October is behind us – but I just had to share this last pumpkin project! Kudos to Mrs. Wert and her awesome team of C.I. teachers for creating this fun pumpkin patch with their sweet kiddos! Students created their own orange pumpkins by mixing yellow and red paint with their fingers – and added all [...]
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Fifth graders have been looking at the work of American artist Georgia O’Keeffe this week, and are finishing up large chalk flowers in the style of O’Keeffe. Their flowers are stunning – they have really worked hard to carefully blend the flowers and make them fill their picture space, just like O’Keeffe did.
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Fourth graders have been studying French artist Edgar Degas this week. They watched a movie about Degas’ life and career, learning that he was interested in showing movement in his figure drawings of ballerinas. Then…it was time to be models ourselves as we practiced figure drawings. I don’t repeat too many art projects – but [...]
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