One of my lovely art rooms!

Spent quite a bit of time making the Loveland art room pretty spiffy!!

Symmetrical Houses

Second graders just finished up learning about symmetry in art. In this project students designed their own "symmetrical" houses. We folded a piece of paper in half and drew one half of our house. Then we traced it with a sharpie, students then flipped their paper inside out and traced their drawing onto the other half of their paper! Perfect symmetry!

Straw Painted Winter Trees

The fifth grade students used watercolor paints and a straw to paint these beautiful winter trees! We used tempera paint to add snow on the ground and branches!

Catching Snowflakes

In this project second grade students used construction paper, yarn, and paint to make self portraits of themselves catching snowflakes on their tongues!

Line Vases

The first graders have been learning about all kinds of lines so far this quarter! In this project students first made a collage of lines using construction paper strips and oil pastels. Students were instructed to draw as many different lines as they could think of. Then we used that collage to cut out a vase. We then added white daisies with torn paper petals!

Fly Away Balloon Art!

The sixth graders did a collaborative project for their fly away balloon art.  We all had our own stamp pad and went around the room leaving our fingerprints and each person's paper for the balloon cluster.  Student were instructed to draw something that represents themselves in contour line style drawing at the bottom of them balloons.

Patterned Mittens

The kindergartners finished off their pattern unit with these lovely patterned mittens!  Students used oil pastels to create their pattern then cut it out and glued it to black construction paper.  Snowflakes were added for a little extra chilly winter charm!

Circle Cutting

In this project kindergartners practiced their cutting skills!  We used pieces of square construction paper to make our "dots" and "donuts".  Students folded a piece of paper in half and cut a circle out of it and then repeated that step on their circle.

Britto Pumpkins

The kindergartners spent a lot of time learning about patterns.  We looked at the artist Romero Britto and made these pumpkins based of his style using patterns!

Lichtenstein Brushstroke

The 5th graders have been talking about movement in art.  We looked at the pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and his Brushstroke painting.  We talked about how the lines show movement.  The students then created their  own "brushstroke" using makers. They also added Benday Dots in the background!

Dali Mustaches!

The second graders have begun the third quarter talking about texture. We looked at the surrealist artist Salvador Dali not because of his paintings but because of his wild and crazy mustache! The second graders got to feel and describe the texture of the mustache(pipe cleaner) for their Dali portrait!

Positive Space Dot Art

Fourth graders have been studying positive and negative space for the 2nd quarter.  The students make their own stencil out of card-stock paper then filled in the positive space with a lot of dots!

Overlapping Lightbulbs

In this project the third graders looked at different shapes that lightbulbs can be.  The used a piece of card-stock paper to create 3 different lightbulb shapes.  They traced their templates overlapping each bulb with another.  The students outlined their bulbs with sharpie marker then used scentsy markers to color them in using the primary colors.  

Patterned Turkey!

Kindergartners took some time to draw a beautiful patterned turkey before Thanksgiving!

Penguin Landscape

First graders just finished up learning about the different grounds in a landscape (foreground, middle ground, background).  In this project the 1st graders were instructed to make the penguins in the foreground large, the penguins in the middle ground medium, and the penguins in the background small.  And to top it off, gold glitter stars in the sky :)

Straw Painting

The 6th graders and I experimented with straw painting.  This technique allows you to achieve lines and texture that you can't get using a paint brush.  Students made a "bead" of watercolor paint on their paper with their paintbrush and then they used the straw to blow the paint along the paper.

Alma Thomas Mosaics

The second graders took a look at the mosaic artist Alma Thomas.  The students used tiny square pieces of construction paper to create concentric circle mosaics.

Sandpaper Prints

The 6th graders spent a lot of time learning about texture.  One of the final projects we did was sandpaper prints.  Students used crayons to color their design onto a piece of sandpaper then I ironed their sandpaper template on a piece of paper. Viola!

Piet Mondrian Lines

First graders have been learning about lines! We looked at Piet Mondrian and his use of the primary colors. Student used a black oil pastel to make a continuous line. Students then used watercolor paints to paint in the squares.

Warm/Cool Abstracts

The second graders got to try their hand out in a simple form of printmaking.  Students used a cut up piece of corrugated cardboard and stamped lines to create an abstract design.  Once the paint was dried students used either warm or cool oil pastels to color their designs in.

Movement Figure Studies

The fifth graders have been studying movement in art.  In this project I brought my old figure study doll from college and the students had a chance to see the doll positioned in different movement poses.  The 5th graders composed their own collage of the drawing doll to show movement.

Lego Man Heads!

The third graders are hard at work studying form in art.  In this project students used the lego man head to show form.  Students colored the head yellow and shaded with black crayon to show dimension.  The students then painted on their faces with acrylic paint!

Positive and Negative Space Grids

The 4th graders spent a lot of time learning about positive and negative space in art!  The students used 8 3inx3in squares to cut out positive and negative images to compose grids.

Symmetrical Owls

The second graders have been focusing on symmetry.  The students made these symmetrical owls with oil pastels.

Why is Blue Dog Blue?

The 6th graders took a look at George Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings.  We learned that Blue Dog was actually based off of a ghost dog.  We also talked about how Blue Dog  shows symmetrical balance.  The students mixed it up a bit and painted their own color dog.

Peeking Polar Bears

Kindergartners used oil pastels and tempera paint to create these "peeking" polar bears!