Students created 2 "quilt" squares one was 2x2 the other 6x6
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| details from Event project |
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| details from event project |
4th grade radial design
Students created 2 "quilt" squares one was 2x2 the other 6x6
Value scale hearts
Red Rectangular Robots
Fun with color and shape, top, middle, bottom, counting, and parts of the body!
2nd Grade Event Art Project inspired by Paul Klee
Cat and Bird inspired Event Art project. Direct drawing, color pencil and watercolor.
5th grade Watercolor sky and Cityscape
Kinder Garden Art Piece of the Event
Painted Paper, torn tissue paper and lots of fun hands on creativity...we made sheets and sheets of color blending/painting paper.
My Wacky Wonderful Winter Hat
How do you draw a face? Now add a wacky winter hat with lots of patterns, color and imaginative details.
3rd Grade Amazing Winter Sunset Sky with Branches
Prime the paper and learn how to apply watercolor wet on wet surface
4th grade session III
Time to complete the day of the dead foil skull project, adding the last of the embellishments.
5th grade session III realistic tree
For the past two sessions students have been drawing trees in a landscape and learning the basic elements of a landscape while creating a dramatic composition. Lots of discussion, observation and compare/contrast. Session 3 the artists used watercolors to complete their sketch. Working in layers and building colors they were challenged to create a realistically inspired landscape. This project is designed to introduce watercolor techniques and build painting skills.
1st Grade Session III Landscape Basics
Exploring colors and creating a landscape:
Can you take 2 colors and make a dramatic landscape?
What are the parts of landscape?
What do blue and yellow make when mixed together?
This will be the base for our Jungle picture...
Can you take 2 colors and make a dramatic landscape?
What are the parts of landscape?
What do blue and yellow make when mixed together?
This will be the base for our Jungle picture...
Kinder Session III Pumpkin colors
Color blending and shapes. The story of Spookley the Square pumpkin was the inspiration for this painting/color blending project.
1st grade Watercolor Webs and rainbow Spiders
We continued with our hand/pattern warm up project, moving from pencil to Sharpie marker for details and design.
Introduced a 2 Part Project: Watercolor/crayon resist spiderweb with rainbow collage spider-
Introduced a 2 Part Project: Watercolor/crayon resist spiderweb with rainbow collage spider-
Kinder session II More Fun with Lines
Straight lines building blocks to shapes and curvy lines to show movement. Student discussed lines and continued their exploration of this element of art, looking at famous works of art such as Starry Nights by Vincent Van Gogh and the Color/Composition pieces by Piet Mondrian. The artists created geometric work with white lines and black paper and experimented with pencil and graphite to create moving lines. Great process driven project.
What inspired this project?
2nd grade session II and III Mr. Bones
This project connects to Common Core themes of science/health and introduces students to basic human anatomy. This series of workshops also allows students to become skilled in imagination and observation two important components in the creative world. Where are skeletons? If I want to find out about skeletons where can I go, what can I do who should I contact? Great discussion starters.
We spend a lot of time talking about our bodies, we compared human adult skeletons to human baby skeletons and looked at numerous print outs and science models. Students closed their eyes and visualized a human skeleton, then drew that skeleton their Imaginary Skeleton.
Session 3 we looked at our class model-Mr. Bones and continued our exploration of the human skeleton, naming bones and their function and reviewing the human body. Through direct drawing and artful observation students created their own Mr. Bones. The two drawings will be matted together to allow for further discussion regarding Imagine and Observe.
We spend a lot of time talking about our bodies, we compared human adult skeletons to human baby skeletons and looked at numerous print outs and science models. Students closed their eyes and visualized a human skeleton, then drew that skeleton their Imaginary Skeleton.
Session 3 we looked at our class model-Mr. Bones and continued our exploration of the human skeleton, naming bones and their function and reviewing the human body. Through direct drawing and artful observation students created their own Mr. Bones. The two drawings will be matted together to allow for further discussion regarding Imagine and Observe.
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| Just a few of the wonderful imaginary skeletons |
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| Mr. Bones is tired after a full day of modeling |
6th grade Session II and III
We are continuing with our line work and exploring abstract composition. In session 2 I introduced a new project that centers on understanding the cultural celebration and traditions surrounding el dias de los muertos, or Day of the Dead.
Students read handout information that offered a brief introduction, and shared one fact per table with the class. We looked at the symbol for this culturally connected event, the sugar skull, and discussed its historic origin with the Aztec culture. Students begin to design their own paper sugar skull, first creating the skull shape/form, making a pattern, tracing on to their finish paper and then adding details such as flowers, patterns and geometric designs. First work is done in pencil then 2 types of sharpies are available.
In Session 3 we built on the previous information and materials, now refining the designs students adding stylized skeleton bodies to give the sugar skulls a "bobble head" look. And last using special embellishments such as feathers, sequins and glitter the students the paper sugar skulls really came ALIVE on the paper.
Such a fun project with lots of room for personal expression and high student success.
Students read handout information that offered a brief introduction, and shared one fact per table with the class. We looked at the symbol for this culturally connected event, the sugar skull, and discussed its historic origin with the Aztec culture. Students begin to design their own paper sugar skull, first creating the skull shape/form, making a pattern, tracing on to their finish paper and then adding details such as flowers, patterns and geometric designs. First work is done in pencil then 2 types of sharpies are available.
In Session 3 we built on the previous information and materials, now refining the designs students adding stylized skeleton bodies to give the sugar skulls a "bobble head" look. And last using special embellishments such as feathers, sequins and glitter the students the paper sugar skulls really came ALIVE on the paper.
Such a fun project with lots of room for personal expression and high student success.
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