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ART SHOUT OUTS! #3

Here is the latest batch of artwork from my students, who shared their beautiful creations from home and the art lesson activities!

Grades K-2 Elementary Visual Art Activities

I can draw a pot of flowers: Using a pencil, trace 3-4 circle shapes to begin your drawing. Be sure to include the parts of a flower: stems, petals and leaves. Add a pot design at the bottom if desired, then add color!

Included in that Google slide were 4 pictures from start to finish showing steps on how to draw flowers using various sized circular objects for the center to the finished drawing with a pot. Also included were links to 2 short videos students could watch. One was about flowers; their importance and taking a closer look at the flowers parts, as well as a video on how to draw a flower and a flower pot. Here are some lovely flowers drawn by my K-2 students!

Grades 3-5 Elementary Visual Art Activities

**I can create an OP art drawing: OP Art is drawing an optical illusion. The way the lines are drawn, makes them appear to “pop out” or move.**

Included in this google slide were 3 drawings, one just as a pencil drawing so you can see the lines easier, and the other two colored in. In addition, students could watch a short 6 minute YouTube video showing kids how to create an Op art drawing as well!

My students did an awesome job creating their op art! Check them out below!

OP ART DRAWING BY EVELYN E. (AS WELL AS HANDMADE WORRY DOLLS AND SOME COOL PAINTED EGGS BY EVEYLN AND HER BROTHER HARRY E.)

Grades K-2 Elementary Visual Art Activities

**I can create: A portrait or self-portrait using a round (circle) shaped plate.**

Included in this Google slide were a variety of portraits using plates to create the head, descriptions on the difference between a portrait and a self-portrait, as well as a 3 min. video on found object art plate faces. Check out the artwork below!

Bryce R. (below) created some super cool vehicles using plates and other materials! Very creative!

Grades 3-5 Elementary Visual Art Activities

I Can: Observe and record shadows. Draw the contour lines!

Included in this slide were photos of plants leaves casting shadows on paper with a close up pic of all the contour lines drawn of that leaf, pictures of various toys lined up with their fun shadows cast onto paper, and 2 short videos; one showing how to create a shadow drawing, and the other short video was the science behind lights and shadows.

My students had a lot of fun creating these!

Below is a series of pics of AJ ‘s awesome shadow artwork!

Additional artwork below!

A BEAUTIFUL ABSTRACT ACRYLIC POUR BY KELSEY S.

AN AWESOME PAPER SHAPE ROBOT BY KATIE L.

WONDERFULLY DRAWN ROOSEVELT LOGO BY RILEY R.

BEAUTIFUL AND COLORFUL LIZARD PAINTING BY OLIVIA P.

BELOW IS A COLLECTION OF AWESOME ARTWORK BY SOFIA D. !

I hope you all enjoyed checking out all the amazing artwork my students are creating!

I’ll be updating this blog post with any additional artwork I receive this week, and will be posting “Art Shout Outs #4” very soon! I can’t wait to see what they create next!

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Take care everybody and stay safe and healthy!

ART SHOUT OUTS! #1

With remote learning well underway, I thought I’d share the artwork students have been emailing me while creating art from home!

I, along with the two AMAZING elementary art teachers in my district (Kim and Sarah YOU ROCK!), have been collaborating on creating weekly art activity suggestions for our students. One weekly art activity suggestion for grades K-2 and one weekly art activity suggestion for grades 3-5.

I’ve gotten a bunch of artwork via email from my students. Awesome work guys! Keep creating!

Some artwork below was created using one of our art activity suggestions for inspiration and some they came up with on their own.

Students below created some excellent positivity posters to hang in their windows in their homes. This was one of the 3-5 art activity suggestions “I can design: A Kindness Poster!” Create a positive motivational poster to send encouragement to others in the world around you. Then, display your poster where you live. You might even hang it in a window to send a positive message to others!”

Here are some sculptures made from nature inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy! This was one of the 3-5 art activity suggestions “I can create: A Sculpture made from nature” Go on a nature scavenger hunt and collect natural materials. Arrange them in a symmetrical design. Take a photo and show off your design!

This was one of the K-2 art activity suggestions “I can Build: A Robot Using Recycled Materials” Create a shape robot using any cardboard you are able to use. Cereal boxes and cracker packaging work well!

Below are some aliens students created. This was one of the K-2 art activity suggestions “I can Create: Draw your own alien” What shape is the body of the alien? How many eyes does your alien have? Does your alien have scales, fur, or something else? What name would you give it?

This student created a cool 3D alien from materials around the house!

This student had fun creating their alien from clay and pipe cleaners!

Below are from one of the K-2 art activity suggestions “I Can Create: Draw a picture of how you would look at age 75?”

These two students used a variety of materials creatively to create themselves at 75!

Below are two students that drew along with me in my YouTube video on “How to Draw 2 Dogs on a Hill”! Nice work!!!

Here’s some more artwork students created!

I will be adding more student artwork very soon!

Students: If you would like to share anything you have created at home please send them to me! I’d love to see it and will post it here on my blog! Email me at mfilmore@naschools.net

Can’t wait to see what you all create!!!!

Take care everyone