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This week 4th grade is starting their Robin Mead inspired landscapes! She's a contemporary artist from Georgia, and you can check out her work on her website here! I was also inspired by the awesome art teacher, Lauralee Chambers, from her beautiful student examples on Instagram! Here's Robin Mead's Instagram too :) She has a Youtube channel too! Here's how we created ours! Materials: Sax 90 lb paper pencils Sharpies Crayola artista II watercolor Big Kid's Choice Paintbrushes Robin Mead examples Day 1: Show examples of Robin Mead's work, and show examples of other 4th grade work from Lauralee Chamber's art room. Then I demonstrated how to add the water, ground, mountains, and sun. After I drew it out, I traced it with Sharpie, and let them get to work. When enough had drawn and traced, I demonstrated how to blend their watercolors in a way similar to Mead's work. They did a great job, and enjoyed creating their own landscapes! Here's some examples of Robin's work! It's so beautiful and colorful!! Here's a video, showing how to draw a Robin Mead inspired landscape! Here's some great student examples on day 1 of instruction! here's Mrs. Braswell's class, working hard on theirs! Here's Mrs. Torres' class, finishing up! Just beautiful!! DISCLOSURE: LINKS TO PRODUCTS ARE AFFILIATE LINKS, WHICH MEANS I GET A SMALL COMPENSATION FOR SALES. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR BLOG!
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Art to Remember is upon us (me) and I haven’t even started one project. We will be starting the day we get back from holiday so I wanted to have this ready to go for my students.
4th Grade created these colorful artworks by using oil pastels and erasers! This lesson was inspired by The Art of Ed blog, and was a hit! Here's how we did it, but you can also check out the Art of Ed's blog for more details! They each chose a shape, traced around that shape, and colored them in with oil pastels. We like to use Crayola oil pastels the best! After they finished filling the paper up with color, they took the eraser, started in the middle, and drug the color outwards, creating a tie dye effect! They did a great job!
4th grade artists are studying various genres in art such as portraits, still life, landscapes, etc. After looking at some landscapes, we ...
Paint, draw, sculpt, and learn about famous artists and their art.
Fourth Grade artists started this project by each receiving a laminated landscape and worked with a friend to find the foreground, middleground, backgrounds, and horizen lines in each piece. We did several sketches and then chose our best ones to transfer to the large paper. We worked hard to use lines and patterns in our work to make them interesting and unique. We even had a prize drawing for those of us who could get these answers correct! The results are beautiful aren't they? Learning Goals: I can identify the foreground, middle ground, background and horizon line in a photo or artwork. I can use size and overlapping to show space in my artwork. I can use warm colors to make some things pop out and cold colors to make some thing recede. I can use patterns in my work.
This week, 4th grade started creating their emojis for our Pop Art emoji, project! What's more popular than emojis right now?? Each day they've entered the art room, I've been getting oooh's and aahh's when they see what they're going to do on the board, and even 5th has been asking when they get to do this! Here's how we created ours! Supplies Day 1: First I showed them what we'd be doing, and then showed them examples of emoji's on the computer. After I showed them how to trace, cut, and sketch them out, I demonstrated how to shade them like we did with our previous project that involved the Suns & Moons. For this project, I used 5 1/2 " pre cut squares, and a 5 1/4 in tracer to do the circle. I told them to sketch the expression lightly with a pencil, trace with a Sharpie, and color with Crayola color sticks. (If you don't have Crayola color sticks, I highly recommend you get some!) Here's a link to Amazon to check them out. Crayola Color sticks Day 2: I'll discuss and show examples of Pop Art, so they will see why we're arranging them the way we are! Those squares are 5 1/2" as well, and were actually leftover paper from anther project. (Waste not, want not! ) I colored these with Mr. Sketch markers, and I'll explain "Lawn Mower Coloring" to them, so their coloring will be a lot neater. Lawn mower coloring is just coloring in straight lines, like mowing a yard. After they finish coloring, they glue the pieces to a 12x12" black piece of construction paper. We like Tru-Ray the best! Here's some awesome 4th grade artists, demonstrating how it's done! Great job!
Third grade used warm and cool colors and pattern to create these tempera paintings. The students viewed artwork by native people and how their hand print was not only a record of who they were or where they had traveled, but also a way to sign their art. The students each used their hand prints to sign their paintings. Notice how the warm colors (red, orange, and yellow) advance and the cool colors (blue, green, and violet) recede? This color effect creates an optical illusion. The boys and girls loved this trick of the eye! The boys and girls also learned how to "let their paintbrush do the work" while working with the cake tempera, a new medium for the third graders.
Paint, draw, sculpt, and learn about famous artists and their art.
Paint, draw, sculpt, and learn about famous artists and their art.
4th Grade- Enlarged Flower Drawings inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe! Students learned about the artist Georgia O’Keeffe, and viewed examples of her flower paintings. We talked about the scale (s…
The return of the lego self portraits. You've probably seen these/my face floating around Pinterest (or at least I'm told by my fellow colleagues that my face is plastered on Pinterest). The original project I did last year brought some major traffic to my blog. I think part of the reason, along with the fact that legos are just awesome, was that shortly after I posted the project The Lego Movie came out and Lego Mania was upon us. This is probably one of my all time favorite lessons. We cover a lot of information and it is fun, the kids love it and all find some sort of success! The majority of this lesson is done with crayon, a few students did choose to use marker on the background. To see a more detailed description of the lesson go here. I'm amazed as to how much I can see the resemblances in some of the portraits and I can pick out which lego belongs to each student.
The great thing about this Earth Day art project is that you can adjust it to what your kids are interested in and what supplies you have.
Fourth graders got to do this neat mind bending project. We began by looking at the work of MC Escher who loved both math (geometry) and art. As you can see he did very planned and precise artwork! We talked about how visual illusions are artworks that tease your brain and make you think! MC Escher was a master of illusions! Students also pointed out right away that MC Escher is very good at using value (shading) to create the illusion of form (3D shapes). This was a concept that we studied earlier. Next we used pre-made tessellation animal stencils to tessellate 5 animals. It was a challenge to figure out how each of the animals fit perfectly into itself. There is always a good amount of head scratching on this step! Afterwards, I point out to the kids that it was tricky to use the pre-made stencils but imagine how much trickier it would have been to invent this art! The next class we actually created our own tessellation tile out of a square lined index card and used it to fill in the background! In order to reference MC Escher's "Drawing Hands" picture students were encouraged to cut out a photo of their own drawing hand or MC Escher's! Learning Goals: I can... - Tell about MC Escher (illusion, tessellations) - Create a tessellation - Use pattern - Use contrasting color families to make animals stand out from the background
Let me start out by saying this has been one of the most successful and visually stunning projects that I've ever done with my students. It ...
Let me start by saying... the technique I used, wet paper with chalk pastels was borrowed by a great art teacher Phyllis Levine Brown, aka There's a Dragon in my Art Room. I learned of this great technique in a workshop she presented at NAEA. Here is the link to her lesson on her blog, (There's a Dragon in My Art Room). In her workshop, Phyl shared that she would soak "bogus paper" in the sink and have students draw with chalks on top... no chalky mess, the chalks stick to the wet paper. Several of us had taught at least 15 years. We all looked at each other and whispered.... "What is BOGUS PAPER???" LOL! It is grayish thick construction type paper. I had never noticed it in the catalogs, but YES, it is there! So I ordered a bunch! It is becoming a new favorite! It works just like Phyl said it would! This lesson, I introduced Tibetan Mandalas. Might seem familiar... I used the same powerpoint to teach the 3rd Grade Radial Designs lesson which follows this blog post. Two very different looking lessons with similar starting points. (Mandala Prezi) This time... I kept the paper square, folded it in fourths like the circle. We started the designs in the center, working out on the folds, the filing in the rest. But this time with black paint. I also changed the technique a bit. Rather than soaking the paper, I had students use water and brushed to apply water then color the area with chalk pastels. It worked great for this lesson. Had I soaked the paper, our black tempera would have run. We finished the project with a layer of Mod Podge, again recommended by Phyl. The results are great! I truly love LEARNING a totally new method in my 18th year.... just gets me all excited to try more!
In this Aquarium Perspective Lesson, Middle School students will dive right into learning about the principle of perspective while designing an aquarium.
Read below to find out how we created these, see step-by-step pics and watch my YouTube tutorial on this lesson! Printmaking is one of my favorite things to teach in art. I love it because it alway…
This week 4th grade is starting their Robin Mead inspired landscapes! She's a contemporary artist from Georgia, and you can check out her work on her website here! I was also inspired by the awesome art teacher, Lauralee Chambers, from her beautiful student examples on Instagram! Here's Robin Mead's Instagram too :) She has a Youtube channel too! Here's how we created ours! Materials: Sax 90 lb paper pencils Sharpies Crayola artista II watercolor Big Kid's Choice Paintbrushes Robin Mead examples Day 1: Show examples of Robin Mead's work, and show examples of other 4th grade work from Lauralee Chamber's art room. Then I demonstrated how to add the water, ground, mountains, and sun. After I drew it out, I traced it with Sharpie, and let them get to work. When enough had drawn and traced, I demonstrated how to blend their watercolors in a way similar to Mead's work. They did a great job, and enjoyed creating their own landscapes! Here's some examples of Robin's work! It's so beautiful and colorful!! Here's a video, showing how to draw a Robin Mead inspired landscape! Here's some great student examples on day 1 of instruction! here's Mrs. Braswell's class, working hard on theirs! Here's Mrs. Torres' class, finishing up! Just beautiful!! DISCLOSURE: LINKS TO PRODUCTS ARE AFFILIATE LINKS, WHICH MEANS I GET A SMALL COMPENSATION FOR SALES. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR BLOG!
The idea for this class came from the fact that these girls are nearing the end of the school year and they're doing a lot of testing and ...
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Read below to find out how we created these, see step-by-step pics and watch my YouTube tutorial on this lesson! Printmaking is one of my favorite things to teach in art. I love it because it alway…
This week, 4th grade started creating their emojis for our Pop Art emoji, project! What's more popular than emojis right now?? Each day they've entered the art room, I've been getting oooh's and aahh's when they see what they're going to do on the board, and even 5th has been asking when they get to do this! Here's how we created ours! Supplies Day 1: First I showed them what we'd be doing, and then showed them examples of emoji's on the computer. After I showed them how to trace, cut, and sketch them out, I demonstrated how to shade them like we did with our previous project that involved the Suns & Moons. For this project, I used 5 1/2 " pre cut squares, and a 5 1/4 in tracer to do the circle. I told them to sketch the expression lightly with a pencil, trace with a Sharpie, and color with Crayola color sticks. (If you don't have Crayola color sticks, I highly recommend you get some!) Here's a link to Amazon to check them out. Crayola Color sticks Day 2: I'll discuss and show examples of Pop Art, so they will see why we're arranging them the way we are! Those squares are 5 1/2" as well, and were actually leftover paper from anther project. (Waste not, want not! ) I colored these with Mr. Sketch markers, and I'll explain "Lawn Mower Coloring" to them, so their coloring will be a lot neater. Lawn mower coloring is just coloring in straight lines, like mowing a yard. After they finish coloring, they glue the pieces to a 12x12" black piece of construction paper. We like Tru-Ray the best! Here's some awesome 4th grade artists, demonstrating how it's done! Great job!
Fourth Grade artists started this project by each receiving a laminated landscape and worked with a friend to find the foreground, middleground, backgrounds, and horizen lines in each piece. We did several sketches and then chose our best ones to transfer to the large paper. We worked hard to use lines and patterns in our work to make them interesting and unique. We even had a prize drawing for those of us who could get these answers correct! The results are beautiful aren't they? Learning Goals: I can identify the foreground, middle ground, background and horizon line in a photo or artwork. I can use size and overlapping to show space in my artwork. I can use warm colors to make some things pop out and cold colors to make some thing recede. I can use patterns in my work.
In fourth grade at Brimfield, we are just finishing these oil pastel animal enlargements. We talked a lot about different kinds of...
5th grade students painted a 12 section color wheel and then assembled it into an eyeball to complete their art project.
Paint, draw, sculpt, and learn about famous artists and their art.
4th grade is finishing up these fantastic chameleons this week! We drew our chameleons by picking out the basic shapes, such as a triangle for the head. Then we discussed their environment and the d
Paint, draw, sculpt, and learn about famous artists and their art.
Third grade used warm and cool colors and pattern to create these tempera paintings. The students viewed artwork by native people and how their hand print was not only a record of who they were or where they had traveled, but also a way to sign their art. The students each used their hand prints to sign their paintings. Notice how the warm colors (red, orange, and yellow) advance and the cool colors (blue, green, and violet) recede? This color effect creates an optical illusion. The boys and girls loved this trick of the eye! The boys and girls also learned how to "let their paintbrush do the work" while working with the cake tempera, a new medium for the third graders.
Inside every kid lies the heart of an artist.
Going through the stash of great art samples that my predecessor left me, I found construction paper tree trunks which inspired this project... there is a book by Lois Ehlert, Nuts to You which may have been the origin of creativity. Either way, it lends a great literature connection along with another book, Busy Tree. Last year the students drew owls on black construction paper with oil pastels. See that project here. It was one of my favorite projects... so this was a great way to do the same project with a twist. Some students made piles of owls, sneaky owls, baby owls. They are all fantastic! The children explored with color and they really brighten up the hall.
The fourth graders just finished these cool portraits that we have worked on FOREVER! We started them when the weather was bad and we missed a lot of school, and then we missed some classes because the kids had rehearsals for their spring program, and we have FINALLY finished! I am proud of the kids' dedication to these artworks that took so long to make. We were inspired by the amazing paintings of Chuck Close and his awesome grid work. To start, I took photos of the kids and then made them into posters on Picasa. The kids glued the pieces of their photos to 18" x 24" paper, we folded them in half, and then drew lines every 2 inches apart. The kids cut on the lines to create warps to weave through. They then wove 2" strips of paper through their portraits, and drew the missing parts of their faces. From here, they traced with Sharpies, colored and made patterns in the background with crayons, and finished by painting with watercolors. In the photos you can see that I also printed a smaller copy of each kid's portrait for them to use as reference.
I've liked the looks of this project from the first time I saw it. The idea came from one of my Donna Hugh videos (found here) and is easy to do. After creating a border (see this link) the students draw several lines (which separate different colored fields) a house on top and tree at the right. Then, using thin colored markers and utilizing small choppy strokes, each field is colored using a combination of colors. Adjacent fields should be colored with enough contrast so that there is adequate visual contrast to separate the fields. Otherwise, the full effect will be minimized or even lost. It's important that the house colors have enough contrast against the background sky and the field immediately underneath the house so that it can stand out. The process itself takes several art sessions but is well worth the effort. The results are very "impressive." You can view a small gallery of work here Here are a couple more examples .
So, if you haven't figured it out by now...I just really look up to and admire Cassie Stephens! You'll see her name A LOT on this blog. She's a fellow Tennessee art teacher, and knocks folks socks off with her AWESOME lessons, FUN teaching style, and FANTASTIC wardrobe! I wanna be just like her, when I grow up! haha She really has helped revamp my "art teacherin'" (as she says) style, even after 13 years of teaching, and inspired me to create my own blog. With that said, here's another one of her super fun lessons we're going to try! We are the bengals, so this is a perfect lesson for my students to attempt! This project teaches them about elements of art, analogous colors, blending, and uses a new and different medium she's introduced us all to....Bingo Daubers!! Here's her original post- Cassie Stephens Dean Russo inspired school mascot & Here's how we created ours! Materials: Bingo Daubers Speedball India Ink Chalk pastels Starch First, I had to fill up the bingo daubers with India ink. I used Cassie's recipe of 2/3 ink and 1/3 water. So far, so good! Day 1: Discuss the artist, elements of art, draw out our tigers together, and talk about how we're going to color our tigers. I started each class with a piece of practice paper, so they could get used to the daubers. I explained how we don't squeeze the bottles, we just tap the end when we need more ink to come out. By the time we finished drawing these, we had about 5 min extra. We just watched Mrs. Stephens talk about analogous colors, and demonstrate how to use the chalk and starch. After that, it was time to go! We have 45 minute classes, btw! Day 2: Talk about analogous colors, blending, and using chalk pastels, and get to work! We might have to spend an additional day coloring, but I'm not sure yet! Day 3: Add designs with oil pastels! Stay tuned for some awesome art! Here's some GRRRRRREAT examples from Mrs. Torres' Class! Here's Mrs. Moss' class, doing a great job on their tigers too! Here's Mrs. Torres' class, coloring their little hearts out!! They're using chalk and starch to add analogous colors to their art! Dr. Fambrough class is catching up quick! (we had pictures when we first started this project) Great job friends! Ms. Braswell's class is finishing up this week, and doing a great job too! DISCLOSURE: LINKS TO PRODUCTS ARE AFFILIATE LINKS, WHICH MEANS I GET A SMALL COMPENSATION FOR SALES. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR BLOG!
