4th grade castles

Great new lesson this year. In the past I have done pop up castles but I wanted more details and time to create architecture. Watercolors were used to develop skills in technique and color mixing. These were big ! On 18x24 drawing paper. 

2nd grade snowmen

This lesson was new this year. I wanted to put a twist to typical snowmen - winter artwork I do. I began by reading the book Snowmen at night" students discussed the funny things a snow person might do while we are all sleeping. This and the movie Frozen have been enough to really motivate my students for the project. We also discussed space and how artists use space to make their art more interesting. We discussed positive and negative space. The students were told that they were not allowed to draw the entire snowman, and that they had to use positive space to fill their artwork. 

They outlined with oil pastel and used tempera to paint. They finished by finding an item to stamp print the falling snow. 

2nd grade Seascapes

I love this lesson. Students painted two sheets of paper. One colors of water and one colors of sky. They tore the water in strips creating a tear line of white along the edge. They layered the paper from the middle and then down to the bottom. With the last layer being on top. They then used colored construction paper and market to add details.

More radials...

5th grade radial name designs

I love how these are turning out. They used a pre-cut triangle to design there names and then transferred them around the pater eight times.

Fall leaf mini- lesson

Some of The first grade classes are much further ahead of others, due to assemblies, days off, etc. to slow them down I am having them do a fun, simple fall leaf design. They trace leaves that are pre-cut, and then color them in. Then they create a "starburst"of colors around them. 

Monets Garden

For this lesson, my 1st graders read the story of Claude Monet, called The Magical Garden of Claude Monet. We then looked at some different online visuals and discussed the favorite things we found in his garden. The students, after discussing horizon lines, created their own version of his garden. We colored and created a crayon resist by painting mixed colors over it.