New Video Tutorial up! -3D Waterlily inspired by Claude Monet

I FINALLY created another art video tutorial —and I’m so excited because this video was created with my new iPad!!! Much better than shooting with a cell phone! I’m still learning some tricks with editing in iMovie so hopefully the more I play around with it the better I’ll get the hang of it!

Would love to hear feedback from people😉!

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AMAZING ART IN THE WORKS! Series #2!

Parents and Students-

To give you a sneak peek into what kids will be creating in art, after returning from winter break, here it is! …

 

Everyone at ROOSEVELT Elementary will finish up their previous lesson before the break, (if needed), then start the Square 1 Art fundraiser drawings!

Then will continue onto the following lessons as AMVET  (read below).

 

BTW–I have only received the Square 1 Art box for Roosevelt so far.  Amvet Elementary will start on them once they arrive! 

 

For students at AMVET ELEMENTARY….

 

1st Grade:

Mixing Primary colors to create Secondary colors 

 

This is a 1 day lesson. Then in the following class, students will be creating “Mondrian Collages” using primary colors.

 

 

2nd Grade:

Finish Monet Inspired 3-D Water Lilies (2M and 2D) 

 

If finished- “Catching Snowflakes” portraits are up next!

 

 

3rd Grade: 

Finish “Self-Portraits with Personal Symbols” oil pastel drawings

 

 

THEN….. Create a “3-D Winter Mug”!!

(**PHOTO CREDIT OF 3-D WINTER MUGS ABOVE AND BELOW FROM MELANIE LABONTE-POIRER —VIA PINTEREST**)

This will be a new art lesson I’m trying out this year! I don’t have a teacher example of my own or students art to post yet– I’m super excited to try it though, and can’t wait to show my 3rd graders!!!! So fun!

 

 

4th Grade:

Finish “Victorian Houses” 

 

 

Then, create “Wayne Thiebaud inspired Mixed-Media Donuts!”

Donuts Inspired by the amazingly talented Mrs. Cassie Stephens! Thanks Cassie! 

Did I mention the sprinkles are created using three-dimensional puffy paint!?! This is one of my favorite lessons!!

 

 

5th Grade:

5th Graders will finish their “3-D OP Art Cone Drawings” if needed

Then….

Will start “Falling For Foreshortening” drawings!

 

 

 

Special Education will start a fun “Mixed-Media Sheep collage”

(photo above by “blps_art” via Instagram) 

*This will be a new lesson I’m incorporating, and do not have a teacher example or students examples yet– Can’t wait to try it out!!  How adorable are these bubble wrap sheep!! 

 

To view more art lessons by grade level, click on the grade level under the drop down menu! 

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HOLIDAY LIGHTS! – 5TH GRADE

This fun lesson only took 2 (40 minute) art classes!

Just enough time for a couple of my 5th grade classes to create them before winter break!!

Steps to the lesson with pics below! 

A big THANKS to artwithmrsnguyen for this fun lesson idea!

Students did such a fantastic job creating these beauties I can’t help but post a ton!!

Day 1 (of 2) 

Step 1: Draw a wavy line in the middle of a piece of 12×18” black construction paper using pencil. Then  go over your line with colored OIL PASTEL (can be 1 color/or a line of a combination of colors!)

Step 2: On a separate piece of black construction paper (cut to 6”x18”) Trace 6 bulbs using a bulb tracer with pencil. (I created these bulb tracers ahead of time from thin cardboard sheets found from the back of printmaking foam board packages-great way to recycle and it’s free!)

 

Step 3: Outline each bulb first, using oil pastel, then fill in -pressing hard- so the color is more vibrant. Leave the rectangular base (bulb socket) black. (***I have small scrap pieces of black paper for students to test out colors first- to see if they like the way it looks on black paper -before using on final bulbs)

Then add a small white curved line near the top to make it look like it’s shiny and reflecting light, a “cursive L shape” for the filament near the base, and 4 white straight lines in the bulbs base using a white oil pastel.

Step 4: Finish the remaining 5 bulbs the same way, using different colors. (If you  want- they can be all the same color or a mix with some the same color)

 

 

Day 2:

Step 1: Trace 6 bulbs along wire line where you want them with pencil using the bulb tracer.

 

Step 2: For each bulb tracing on the wire line-using a white CHALK pastel, draw a thick white line just inside the pencil line a bit, on each of the bulb tracings. Do this with ALL 6 bulbs.

 

Then, smudge with your finger going outward (going away from the bulb and smudging in one direction) to create a glow effect!

Step 3: Then using the same color CHALK PASTEL as each of your OIL PASTEL bulbs—go over the same white line with colored CHALK pastel thickly. Smudge outward again with your finger. Do all 6 bulbs with the chalk on the black paper.

(To avoid blending colors, use a different finger for each color when smudging).

 

 

 

Step 4: Cut out each colored OIL PASTEL bulb from the 6”x18” strip of black paper.

Each time you cut one out, glue the back of it using a glue stick, and glue down in place over the traced bulb with chalk smudges- (glue down matching each bulbs color with chalk pastel smudges). I have students glue them down immediately after cutting so cut bulbs wouldn’t get mixed up with other students bulbs.

 

And there you have it!! So easy and so Fun!!

 

 

 

 

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VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE DRAWINGS! 4TH GRADE

4th Graders learned what architecture is, learned about some of the common characteristics found within the Victorian architectural style, and then created a drawing of their own Victorian style house that included those elements!

Students did a great job creating their own houses and I LOVE how unique each one is!

 

 

This student just needs to finish coloring in 1 chimney!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nearly finished and doing an amazing job!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Learn more about this lesson, lesson’s goals and see additional Victorian houses, Click HERE! 

Also—ART EDUCATORS— FREE powerpoint lesson and step-by-step drawing sheets for this lesson, available to download and print HERE 

 

 

 

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GLOWING WINTER TREES

This was a fun, quick lesson (it actually only took about 15-20 minutes to make!), and a great way to wrap up the week before the holiday break!!!

 

 

 

 

Students used a tree tracer from cardboard to trace a tree on a sheet of 9×12″ 80# drawing paper.

They could design their trees anyway they wanted with markers.

 

 

Then on a separate sheet of 9×12″ black construction paper, they traced the tree again using pencil. White chalk pastel was then used to draw a thick line along the inside of their tree line.

 

Kids then smudged the white chalk going away from the tree, in one direction, with their finger to make a glowing effect.

 

 

 

Students then cut out their trees, glued the back of it with a glue stick, and glued down within their glowing lines on their black paper.

 

 

 

Kids had a lot of fun with this mini-lesson, and wanted to make more!

Gotta give a shout out to mrsallainart and 2art.chambers (Two awesome art teachers on Instagram) who had the idea first! Thanks for the idea!

 

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OP ART -“3D PAPER CONE DRAWINGS”–5TH GRADE!

5th Graders knocked it out of the park with this lesson!! I’m super proud of their hard work! 

Students really LOVED it too and couldn’t believe it could be created using just sharpies, and colored pencils. More on this below!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This lesson took about 5 (40 minute) art classes to complete. 

ON DAY 1: Students were introduced to various OP Art by artists Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley, and learned what Op art was (Optical Illusion Art) with a quick slideshow of work. 

Six straight lines that intersect at the same spot, were drawn ahead of time on 80# 10×10″ paper for each student with a ruler; Creating 12 “slices” in total. 

After kids got their papers, I demonstrated under a document camera as they followed along with me for the first step. 

Students then drew a series of concentric curved lines alternating the direction of the curve within each “slice”. 

 

Once finished with that step, students labeled every OTHER slice with a “B” lightly in pencil, to mark that space as black.

This step helps speed things along as kids color in– (just locate the ones labeled “B”), AND reduces any potential mistakes while using Sharpie. 

 

Once that’s all set, students then started tracing over the smallest slices labeled “B” in the center, using a extra fine point Sharpie, (so it wouldn’t bleed too much into the small white sections), then filled in. 

As areas got larger, kids switched to a Fine Point Sharpie, (since it has a thicker tip), and colored in the rest. 

These 2 steps took about 2- (40 minute) classes to complete. 

 

 

 

 

ON DAY 3, I discussed the element of art VALUE with students and showed them how to create subtle value changes.

Then I demonstrated the next step —using a black colored pencil in the white areas to create shading and shadows, and a white colored pencil in the black areas to create highlights. 

Before students started this on their own artwork, I had them practice first on black and white papers. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I explained to students it’s important to draw the lines close together. 

It’s also key to press harder with the white in the center, and gradually get lighter and lighter as the white gets closer to the edges of each slice, leaving a bit of black showing along the sides. 

 

Then, using the black colored pencil in just the white areas, they drew darkest along the sides and gradually pressed lighter and lighter towards the center—leaving the center strip white!

Students loved seeing the 3D effect start to emerge!! 

 

Here is my step-by-step video tutorial on this lesson

 

This is my first you tube tutorial (eep!) I’ve ever created….This is all a bit daunting to me, so please be kind as I’m excited (and NERVOUS!) about creating art tutorial videos. But it’s a goal of mine as an educator to try it out, and my hope is to get better and better at it -eventually adding additional art tutorial videos in the future! 

https://youtu.be/pZmahmdqee8

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ABSTRACT SELF-PORTRAITS -2nd Grade

This is one of my FAVORITE art lessons for 2nd grade!! I LOVE each and every one of them!!

(More info. and how they were created below! Plus a little virtual gallery walk video!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This fun self-portrait lesson combines art exploration in abstract art and color theory!

This lesson took (3) 40 minute art classes to finish.

On the first day of the lesson, students learned about abstract artwork and looked at a slideshow of artwork by various abstract painters (Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock and William de Cooning). We discussed how abstract art focuses mainly on lines, shapes, and colors.

ON DAY 1  After viewing the slideshow and doing a quick demo, students drew an abstract drawing using various lines, and shapes on 12×18″ medium weight tagboard. Students then went over all their lines with crayons being sure to press super hard (later on we would do a crayon wax-resist). They then filled out a short questionnaire with questions asking about their favorite things and things about themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ON DAY 2 They painted their drawings using concentrated liquid watercolors creating a crayon wax-resist. Before painting we reviewed what the primary colors, secondary colors and warm and cool colors were. While kids worked, I took each students photo (which I later printed as a high-contrast black & white photo on printer paper).

 

 

 

ON DAY 3  Students glued their black and white self-portrait onto their painting. I printed these out ahead of time and cut each one out (not only to save time, but to ensure that no one would lose fingers or ears etc. when trying to cut them out themselves!!)

As I was cutting them out, I piled them up on top of each other and thought this was kind of a cool picture in of itself!

 

Then students cut out their pre-printed sentences into strips (Yep….I also typed up ALL kids answers and printed them out in Word…I know, I know…) and added them to their paintings using a glue stick! I’m not gonna lie….A LOT of prep went into this lesson– BUT–I think they’re too awesome not to do it!

Students are able to create and identify abstract artwork, use a variety of line and shape to create their drawings, learn about abstract artists and their artwork and can identify primary, secondary, warm and cool colors!

I hope you enjoy these awesome abstract self-portraits as much as I do!!  

Here’s a fun little virtual “gallery walk” video of all their artwork!!

 

FYI– Parents—-Students at Roosevelt aren’t finished yet— I’ll be taking kids pics next week and then the following week they will finish them up!!!  Also my cell decided to die as I was trying to get everyone’s artwork in the video above -so not all student work is in this video unfortunately. I tried!

To view additional abstract self-portraits by 2nd grade from previous years click on the menu and select 2nd grade art lessons and scroll down!

Thanks for visiting my blog!!

 

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DIA de los Muertos skulls –3rd Grade

Many of my 3rd graders finished up their Day of the Dead skulls this week! They came out great!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a little tricky photographing them being so reflective! 

 

 

 

To create them, I first prepared all the kids sheets with tinfoil. I laid a sheet (shinier side facing down) on the table. Then glued a piece of 8.5″ x 11″ heavyweight tagboard with a glue stick all over with a thin coat of glue. It’s important to not have any globs of glue here so it won’t show on the tinfoil as bumps.

 

Then I flipped the tagboard over -putting the glue side down, and smoothed it all over with my hands. Then I glued the edges of each side of tinfoil. Then folded the edges onto it.

So that all four sides of extra tinfoil are glued and folded onto the tag.

Then flip it over to the tinfoil side.

 

I found 3 different images of skulls online and printed them out so the images were printed lighter (a grey outline rather than black). Students then chose an image and taped it to the tinfoiled tagboard with 1 piece of painters tape along the top.

Students then traced the image, pressing firmly with a dull pencil, to transfer the image.

 

 

Students LOVED this and were amazed when they saw their lines transfer to the tinfoil!

 

 

 

 

 

This tracing step took most of the 40 minute art class. Once finished tracing, students then colored in their image using colored sharpies.

 

 

 

The sharpies take about 20 seconds to dry, so be careful while coloring so you don’t smudge.

 

 

 

Students learned that Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday and festival held from October 31st – November 2nd to remember and honor friends and family members who have died and is celebrated throughout Mexico and by people of Mexican heritage living in the United States.

 

My third graders LOVED this lesson and thought it was a lot of fun!

This lesson also ties in nicely to our NEXT lesson -(studying the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and creating self-portraits with personal symbols inspired by her work using oil pastels! (you can view previous 3rd graders self-portrait artwork under the menu and scroll down!) 

 

Next blog post later Saturday 10/28 on 2nd grade abstract self-portraits! One of my absolute favorite art lessons!!! Click under 2nd grade art lessons under the menu, and scroll down to view last year’s artwork! 

Stay tuned!…

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1ST GRADE – “PUMPKIN’S STARRY NIGHT” PAINTINGS!

Lesson inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night”.

****Updated with new pics on Tues. 10/24/17****

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On day 1 of the lesson, students looked at a slideshow of Van Gogh’s paintings and learned about his life and artwork. We took a close look at his painting “The Starry Night” and noticed that he used lots and lots of short lines painted close together in certain directions, to create a sense of movement!

Then students got to work creating their own Van Gogh inspired masterpieces with a pumpkin!

Students followed along with me for the first steps, as I demonstrated under a document camera. (Photos below)

They traced a pumpkin using a cardboard cut-out along the bottom of their 12×18” tagboard paper. Students held their paper vertically rather than horizontally, so they would have more room on their paper to create the starry night sky.

Students then drew a line for the ground, a crescent or full moon ( a banana shape or a circle) and small circles for stars with pencil. They then drew straight lines in the pumpkins stem, and curved lines inside the pumpkin.

Students then took both a yellow and a green crayon in one hand and drew lines using both colors at the same time, all along the bottom for the grass making sure to press really hard as they drew.

They colored in the moon and stars with yellow, and outlined all the lines within their pumpkin and stem with whatever colors they wanted, making sure to continue pressing hard.

For a final step with the crayons, just like Van Gogh did with his brush, students drew lots of short dashed lines with yellow, circling all around each star. Then with blue crayon drew more dashed lines all throughout the sky curving around their stars to create a sense of movement!

Below are photos of students hard at work creating their masterpieces!!! 

 

 

 

 

On day 2 of the lesson, students painted their pumpkin, grass and sky any color they wanted using concentrated liquid watercolor paint. I LOVE liquid watercolors —they’re SUPER  vibrant and saturated! By far, my favorite paint for art lessons! (A little bit trickier for prep and clean up, but well worth it!)

A lot of you art teachers out there might think I’m crazy– but I don’t dilute the paint. Only if the paint comes out of the bottle like syrup would I add a teeny bit of water (like about 1 tablespoon *or less* per little cup of liquid watercolor paint). The ones I buy are Sax brand and lately it’s been hard to find online, as many colors are out of stock. The yellow is really the only one that I add a bit of water to, since I find that color is for some reason the most syrupy in consistency.

The only rule with color I had was that they had to paint their pumpkin, grass and sky each a different color. That way they would each stand out from one another.

*Skip this next paragraph in bold if you’re not an art teacher or not interested in details about paint and art teaching stuff*

I find that concentrated liquid watercolors can be tricky when trying to see the actual color in the cups due to their intensity. Red, orange, and magenta can all appear to be the same when just when looking at it. So what I have kids do is **GENTLY** take their brush (and I demo this part under a doc camera) and after dipping it in the cup, slide it up the side of the cup and look at the color dripping down the edge back into the cup to see. It seems to do the trick.  I might label each cup by color with tape and sharpie next time to make it even easier. Not sure how long the tape would hold up…maybe writing it directly on the plastic cups would be best but sometimes I use the cups for other things. 

The cups I’m referring to are from Tide laundry detergent caps….and they are awesome to use!! They are stackable, hold up with wear and tear because of the thickness of the plastic, are just the right size, and rinse out easily! Plus– this way I can pour any leftover paint into individual bottles! 

Anyhoo…….While painting, students learned about the technique crayon wax-resist. They all loved watching the paint glide right off the crayon parts and thought it was pure magic!!!!

 

 

 

On day 3 of the lesson, students went over their moon, pumpkin, and 5 circles for stars with glow in the dark three-dimensional puffy paint! We talked about how the puffy paint adds texture and will pop out from the paper. Students obviously LOVED this step although I must admit, I was a little nervous on how this would all work out! They did a really good job! …. other than a few kids “forgetting” to only add puffy paint to the few areas I told them!  Students then watched a quick 7 minute animated video on Van Gogh when finished!

 

Some finished work with glow in the dark puffy paint! 

I can’t get over the VIBRANT colors these paints have!! I love how each one turned out!!

 

Here’s some fun close-ups of the texture we added with puffy paints! Kids L-O-O-V-E-D this step!

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the photos below, this class used tempera cakes to paint rather than liquid watercolors because I didn’t receive my paint order in time, but they still came out vibrant!

I can’t wait to display them in the halls!! I love them ALL!! 

MY NEXT POSTS WILL BE TOMORROW AND THURSDAY NIGHT (10/25 & 10/26) WITH NEW FINISHED ARTWORK FROM SOME NEW ART LESSONS—1ST AND 3RD GRADE—- AND 2ND GRADE ABSTRACT SELF-PORTRAITS!!           

STAY TUNED!!….

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TISSUE PAPER PUMPKIN COLLAGES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special needs students created these gorgeous pumpkin collages using liquid watercolor, tissue paper, glue, and liquid tempera paint!

On day 1 of the lesson, students traced a pumkin using a cardboard tracer onto 9×12″ 70# or 80# paper. They then glued on orange, red, yellow and pink squares of pre-cut tissue paper using a paintbrush and watered down glue. They brushed on a second layer of glue once a piece of tissue was placed on. They used a brown piece for the pumpkin’s stem.

On a second sheet of 12×18″ heavyweight tagboard paper, students painted a turquoise sky with concentrated liquid watercolor paint.

On day 2 of the lesson, students cut out their pumpkins and glued onto the sky painting using a glue stick. They then glued on cut strips of various green and yellow tissue paper for the grass using watered down school glue and a paintbrush.

For the final step, they sponged on leaves in the sky by lightly dipping a pre-cut sponge in the shape of a leaf into a plate of drizzled red, yellow and orange liquid tempera paint, then gently pressed onto the sky to create falling leaves!

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