Thursday
Chalk it Up 2011
Cherry Blossom
Elegant water color work using only black and red and lots of imagination. Inspired by Japanese ink painting. Wonderful salute to spring!
Wednesday
Large full page Flower
Inspired by the American Artist Georgia O'Keeffe the students made large off the page pastel drawings of flowers. They were encouraged to use imaginary colors.
Funny Fish
What would your imaginary fish look like? We talked about ocean life and the students looked at nature photos and model fish for inspiration, but were encouraged to think outside the box...or in this case outside the ocean. This was an exploration project that used oil pastels.
Fish Prints
Each kinder class got to work in groups and make a fish print. It was a great hands on experience...and colorful too!
Graduation Self Portraits June 2011
This graduation art project is becoming a school tradition.
I take photos of all the 6th grade students and convert them on Photoshop into a high contrast line drawing printed on a transparency. The students create their own personal statement and add pop collage colors. The works are hung up in the multi purpose room on promotion day and are a gift to families after the ceremony.
May 2011 Take a Line for a Walk Part II
Take a Line for a Walk Part II students added color/pattern and design to their line drawing with Sharpie markers. The colorful clouds were cut out and changed into 3-D sculptures.
Finished Torn Paper Self Portraits
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| Wall display at end of school art show |
Red Robots
Shape, Color, and Spacial Relationships:
Red rectangles create the head (top) body/arms (middle) and legs/feet (bottom) shiny paper, yellow and blue were used for details. Crayon and color pencil provided the finishing touch.
After School Things that Fly
5 session after school workshops. We made kites, butterflies, dragonflies and bat...and had a really fun time
Take a line for a Walk Part I
Take a line for a walk and create the basic shape/form that will become a 3-D sculpture. Part I students create a cloud or bubble line drawing. They will add color/texture/pattern to the pockets created. This line form will be cut out so all of the outside lines need to connect.
Half Faces
Using half of a pre-printed black and white portrait students completed the other half of the face. They could make color and background choices.
Rainbow City
Primary and secondary colors, rectangles and squares sit on a horizon to create a Rainbow City
American Gothic Pop Art
Classic American painting American Gothic by Grant Wood influenced by Andy Warhol pop art color.
Calder and Mondrian
American Artist Calder was influenced by Dutch Artist Piet Mondrian...his use of a limited color palette.
Today I Feel
John James Audobon
http://www.audubon.org/john-james-audubon
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America (Alexander Wilson has that distinction), but for half a century he was the young country’s dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, quickly eclipsed Wilson’s work and is still a standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists, such as Roger Tory Peterson and David Sibley, are measured
Birds of North America
5th grade students connect their sketchbook drawings to early American history.
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