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 for highlighting their pumpkin! Students loved blending and each student had their own interpretation of the piece!

Kindergarten Self Portraits

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

second and third grade portraits

Students used the camera feature in mac books and iPads to help them draw self portraits.

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1st grade Egyptian Art

 Students looked at artwork from the Ancient Egyptians. We noticed how the figures were always facing front and in profile at the same time. Students also learned about Hieroglyphics, and how the Ancient Egyptians used pictures instead of letters. We drew these pieces and added gold paint to make them pretty. Then students tore the edges of their papers to make them look like old artifacts. First grade work:

Kindergarten directed line farm drawing

We draw one shape and one line at a time until we have our animals and farm drawn. I leave plenty of room for children to draw their own detail! 

Fifth grade acetate pictures

Fifth graders looked at the artwork of Paul Klee and discussed his use of line and shape. Next they sketched out a design onto white paper and traced it onto clear acetate using black sharpie. They flipped their acetate over (or were supposed to anyway!) and colored the back with oil pastel. Any mess-ups were fixed by students scrubbing the pastel off with a sponge. Finally we stapled them onto black paper so the students could decorate their boarders. I had samples of line designs ready for students to use as a reference.

Fifth grade art:

first grade rockets

We studied the planets and chose different size circle tracers to make each planet. The students used pictures of the real planets as a reference and colored with oil pastel. The next week, we added the black paint background. The following class we looked at a youtube video of a rocket launch. We drew  our rockets onto small white pieces of paper, colored with crayon, cut and pasted them to our art. Finally, we dipped sticks into white paint to create stars! (my example was from a few years ago, we did the same basic steps but painted metallic paint over the plants to make them shiny. I just don't have any more metallic paint this year so we skipped it)

First grade work:

Andy Warhol Hands

So much fun! The first session we discussed Andy Warhol and viewed his work. Next we took a  12" square paper and folded it into quarters. We opened it up and traced our hands with pencil, then with neon crayons. I encouraged the students to vary the neon colors in each box.  The next session we discussed the black shading that was in Warhol's pictures. Students used a black crayon for the shading and outlined each hand in white oil pastel to keep the watercolor inside the lines. Then students painted each hand a different color. Next week we will paint the background and we will be finished!

Third grade works in progress:

Third grade falling pictures completed!

I love their backgrounds! Two children decided to put their pictures side by side to draw one big background. Another student decided that his character was falling into steaks. "The food, not wooden spikes", he patiently explained to me and the other students.

Third grade art:

 (The steaks)

3rd grade falling portraits

We used an 18 x 24" sheet of paper to trace our hands and shoes. Next we added a head and body and colored. Next week we will add backgrounds. I'm so excited to see what the students come up with, already they are talking about drawing trampolines and people bungie jumping and floating in outer space! So fun.

Third grade work in progress:

5th grade Radial Designs

Students started in the center of a square paper and made the same design in the shape of a plus sign. They then built outward adding detail and being careful to rotate the paper as they went to keep the symmetry. Next week students will use plastic wrap and water color to color the background.

Fifth grade work in progress:

Third grade castles

Students created a background for their castles and glued on a folded castle to give it a 3D look.

Third grade work