Ooh La La, don’t you love these sunflowers created by my talented second graders? We’ve been looking at the sunflowers painted by Vincent VanGogh and reading the cute story by ~ Laurence Anholt, Camille and the Sunflowers. Our beautiful sunflowers were drawn with large permanent markers and colored with water soluble oil pastels. The black tempera [...]
Continue Reading Add comment November 10, 2012
Well everyone – we’re done in the Art Room until September. Before we go, here’s one last project from our fabulous G-Town artists! What to do with all that opened paint that won’t keep over the summer months? What to do now that the District Art Show is over? HOW to keep summer-ready students interested [...]
Continue Reading 4 comments June 8, 2012
Georgetown fourth grade artists are finishing up a big Kandinsky project this week. The project is stunning, and we can’t wait to hang these in the hallway! After looking at Kandinsky’s Several Circles No. 323 and discussing abstract art, we got started. Several Circles No. 323 We began by thinking about texture and color [...]
Continue Reading 4 comments January 18, 2012
A few weeks ago, I realized that I had not given my 4th grade artists a chance to work “really big” this year – probably because my 4th grade groups are so large – 30 kids is a bunch of artists to “go big”! So we began the Big Fish project – a review of [...]
Continue Reading 6 comments May 29, 2011
