Primary Art

Welcome to Primary Art, home to my favorite art lessons. I am an elementary school art teacher, chronicling my favorite art lessons. I hope to bring ideas to other art teachers, parents, home school teachers, and artistic children. Here you will find a catalog of lessons for grades kindergarten through 5, as well as other art-room related stuff! Thank you for visiting!

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Friday, October 16, 2015

5th grade close up pumpkins

This is a take on an artwork I found here. Students used red, orange, yellow, and brown oil pastel to create analogous colors to blend f...

Kindergarten Self Portraits

I found this lesson at this youtube post. The students loved them!

Primary Color Mixing

We did this lesson with tempera cakes because the liquid watercolor was running! I saw this on a youtube video (I forgot to write down th...

Warm and Cool Leaves

Students studied a simplified version of warm and cool colors: red, orange, yellow and pink for warm, and green, blue, purple, and magenta...

5th Grade Tints

Students learned to mix tints of blues and violets. First, students painted a circle for the moon. Next, students used combinations of w...

Monday, April 22, 2013

3rd Grade Beautiful Bugs

These looked kind of cute but creepy! They are made from two ceramic pinch pots with holes pierced through them to insert the antennae and l...

5th grade Assemblage Art

These pieces were modeled after Assemblage Art. Students used macaroni, beans, wood, and ribbons to create a relief sculpture on a poster b...

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About Me

Nicole Rosen: Concord, NC, United States; Thank you for visiting The Primary Sea! I'm Nicole. I've been teaching elementary art in North Carolina since 2007. My main love is drawing, but I enjoy painting and sculpting as well.

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