Here’s what students are currently working on in Art class!
1st Grade: HOT AIR BALLOON COLLAGES
Students are using the Elements Of Art LINE and SHAPE to create these fun collages! These photos of student art are from last year. To learn how we are creating them and what the learning goals are click HERE.
2nd Grade: BIRCH TREE LANDSCAPES
2nd Graders are learning about foreground, middle ground and background and how to create a sense of space in art for this lesson. The photos above are of student artwork from last year. Some students are finishing up their Love Monsters this Thursday and will begin this lesson after. To learn more about this lesson and how students will create this, click HERE and scroll down!
*****I will be creating a YouTube video tutorial on the Birch Tree Landscape lesson soon, as well as a few “How to draw animals” videos for the lesson! Stay tuned!!!*****
3rd Grade: COMPLEMENTARY CREATURE PRINTS
3rd graders will start this lesson soon once the 3D Winter Mugs are finished. To learn more on how these prints were created and what the learning goals are for the lesson, click HERE and scroll down!
I have a YouTube tutorial on this lesson as well! Click under the main menu on “YouTube Tutorials” and view my video there!
4th Grade: ENLARGED FLOWER DRAWINGS
4th graders are currently working on this lesson inspired by the artist Georgia O’Keeffe! Photos above are by 4th graders from last year. Students enlarge a section of a flower while observing photos, using oil pastels. I LOVE this lesson and how we abstract the flower by zooming in and cropping just a section of a flower!
To learn more about this lesson and learn how students will create these beauties, click HERE and scroll down!
5th Grade: FALLING FOR FORESHORTENING
5th Graders are currently working on these fun perspective drawings! These photos above are by 5th graders from last year and previous years. They learn about the type of perspective “foreshortening”, and draw the person’s expression to match what they are falling into, add details to the hands and feet and create a background using colored pencils. To learn more on this lesson, and view additional drawings click HERE and scroll down!
SPECIAL EDUCATION: MIXED MEDIA FLOWER AND BUGS
Students created these adorable flowers and bugs using cut paper and cupcake liners! Kids glued green construction paper for the grass and flowers stem and leaves, then painted ovals and/or circles on separate paper with tempera paint to create the bugs. Then they painted a cut paper plate for the large flower head with liquid tempera paint.
On day 2, they glued on their paper plate flower head, then a cupcake liner for the center. They then drew legs for their bugs with marker, cut out the bugs and added them to their flower picture with google eyes!
Once finished, I showed them how to draw flowers in grass and they colored in crayon!
Be sure to check out the previous post on “PULLED STRING ART” my special education classes created below!! They came out so beautiful!!
To view additional artwork by my special education classes, click HERE!
This was a super fun and EASY one day lesson on mirror symmetry! Kids dipped cut yarn into a plate of liquid tempera paint, then using a plastic fork, pushed the paint all over the yarn, keeping a small section of the yarn out so it wouldn’t get covered in paint. Then after taking the excess paint off with your fingers running down the yarn-(This part is important!) place yarn on a sheet of paper (we used medium weight tagboard) anyway you like. Just make sure you leave the part that doesn’t have paint on the end dangling out.
Then wipe hands on a paper towel or handy wipes, and place another piece of paper (same size) on the top, keeping that end bit of yarn dangling out from the side between the two sheets.
Then while holding down the 2 papers together with your hands or a book, pull the string (yarn) out slowly.
To reveal your print!
We used multiple yarn dipped into other colors to create these fantastic paintings!
My students in Special Education classes created 3 each, 6 prints in total.
I see purple birds in the one above!
Kids had a blast creating them, and loved the sensory experience! I love the results and how it’s a surprise with each one!!
