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!

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:

Kindergarten Starry Nights

We used oil pastel on black paper.
Kindergarten work:

fourth grade 3D drawings

Students learned how to shade with oil pastels. Next they glued on details to turn their sticks into crayons, color pencils, paint brushes, markers, or chalk.

Fourth grade work