Monday, September 10, 2012
Chalk Pastel Cakes (6th Grade)
My 6th graders made some yummy cakes this week! In this project we talked about contour line drawing as well as texture and color. The students were given a black piece of construction paper and they were to draw the outlines of their cake design. We went through a mini perspective lesson as well for those students who wanted a slice of cake taken out of their cake. Then they used chalk pastels to color in their cakes. Once the design was colored in with chalk, they took a black oil pastel and gave the drawing a graphic look with the bold black outlines.
Jim Dine Hearts (4th Grade)
The 4th graders and I took a look at the Pop artist Jim Dine and his heart paintings. In this lesson we discussed warm and cool color families. The students made a heart stencil and drew 4 hearts using oil pastels. Two of them had to be from the warm family and two of them had to be from the cool family. Then we used watercolor paints to paint background of our blocks. The students were to paint the background the opposite of the heart (i.e. if they had a cool heart they were to paint the background a warm color).
Thiebaud Gumball Machines (1st grade)
The first graders and I looked at the artist Wayne Thiebaud's gumball machine painting. The first day we all chipped in and painted sheets of scrap paper (Eric Carle style, using plastic forks for texture) to make our gumball circles out of. Also on the first day, I gave the students a red, black and white oil pastel and we drew our gumball machines together. We then put in our shadow next to our machine. The next day we divided up the painted paper and cut our gumballs of them. I talked to the students about overlap and space and encouraged them to show overlap in their gumball machines.
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| Wayne Thiebaud's Gumball Machines |
Matisse Shape Collages (3rd Grade)
We learned about shapes in this Matisse lesson! The students learned what makes a shape a shape (it has to have lines that connect) and they also learned the difference between geometric and organic shapes. First we made a colorful backdrop for our shapes out of tissue paper. I encouraged the students to overlap their tissue paper to invent new colors. Once the tissue paper was finished, the students cut out various geometric and organic shapes out of black and white construction paper to finish their design.
Kinder Warhol Flowers (K)
In this lesson the Kindergartners beckoned the famous pop artist Andy Warhol! We looked at Warhol's flower prints and discussed line and shape. The students used black construction paper and printed green neon paint with a "grass stamper" (a cut up piece of matte board). Then the students drew flowers and cut them out. They added the centers to the flowers and then glued them onto the grassy background. Voila!
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| Warhol's flowers |
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| The Kindergartner flowers! |
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Organic Line Fish (2nd Grade)
In this project, the 2nd graders and I talked about organic lines and contour drawing. The students were instructed to draw an organic "loopy" line. They were to go slow and controlled with the line. They were to draw at least 4 loops, and they need to make the loops big enough to turn them into fish. The fish were drawn in sharpie marker, no pencils allowed! We talked about adding a lot of detail and texture to the fish. Once they drew their fish they used watercolor paints to make the fish colorful!
Friday, August 24, 2012
Zentangle!
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| 6th grade |
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| 6th grade |
4th grade
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| 3rd grade |
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| 3rd grade |
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| 3rd grade |
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| 1st and 2nd grade |
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| 1st and 2nd grade |
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