2nd Grade Catchup and Monster Day

In class yesterday 2nd graders took time to finish all their unfinished works so that all their awesome art could go home.  Those kiddos who were speedy workers and had extra time got a chance to make some spooky Halloween Monsters.  For these monsters students worked on really zooming in on their monster so they could show expressive details.  If they had time to add color students were given their choice of paint, pastels, marker or colored pencil.  I love when these kiddos really get to make their own choice you never know what you're going to get as a project but they always have so much fun working. 

Kindergarten Foreground, Middle Ground, & Background

This project already went home but I forgot to post.  In this lesson Kindergarten students talked about Foreground, Middle Ground and Background and how things that are closer to us are lower on the page and larger and things that are farther away from us get smaller and higher on the page.  We colored these projects with oil pastel and students who were done early were given a chance to add in water color paint too.

4th Grade Tinfoil People

 This week most 4th graders took home their tinfoil sculptures.  I love the movement in these.  They are always fun for the kiddos to make.  This year we used some gold foil too some of the kiddos really loved this add in.  Now we are working on gesture drawing we started this week with trying to draw the gesture of our foil sculpture and then we drew students in class.  Next week we will be looking at some great artist and turn our gestures into our next project.

5th Grade Blind Contour Flowers

 These are the finished blind countour flowers 5th graders began last week.  Some of these were so beautiful and expressive after the addition of watercolor that it really was hard to believe that they were drawn blind.   We are still working on a second flower project, hopefully that will finish as beautiful as this one did.

Spiderweb

Third-graders who got finished with their foil animals early had a chance to play around today with oil resist watercolor techniques and create some spooky Halloween spiderwebs. 

3rd Grade Oaxacan Foiled Animals

For this project 3rd Graders began by drawing animals as realistic as they could.  Their animal was suppose to be large enough that it ran off the page on at least one side, (this was very hard for students we have a tendency to want to fit everything on our paper.)  Then we transfered out drawing onto a foil base, (our foil bases have thin peices of crafting foam under them so that the foil gives a little and can be indented.)  Then with Sharpie marker we colored our animals.  When coloring our animls we looked at the work of Mexican Oaxacan Carved Animals. These animal carvings are painted with ornate pattern and detail, that was our inspiration for our abstract color. Students seem to love this short simple project because they love to draw animals and color with sharpie.

Six grade color cubes

Six graders have been studying color theory they had to prove the knowledge of color Siri to me by creating a cube and I each of the six sides of the cube they needed to paint using a different color family. This lesson shows how well my six graders can paint how well they can cut and measure to actually create their queue as well as what they're learning about color theory. I love the end result of putting these in the display case with our Crayons.