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VICTORIAN HOUSES- 4TH GRADE!

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CHECK OUT THESE AMAAAAAZING VICTORIAN HOMES!!!!

SO PROUD OF THEIR HARD WORK AND CREATIVITY!!!

I loove how all these houses are all so unique and students really put their effort into creating them with lots of detail!!

MORE AMAZING HOUSES —STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION!……. 🙂

4th graders did such a wonderful job creating these Victorian houses! They worked so hard coming up with their own individual, unique style Victorian house!

This lesson took  (6 ) 40 minute art classes to complete. I think absolutely worth every class though! Students took their time carefully crafting their beloved houses and I wanted to give them the time!

I love incorporating a unit on Architecture!

Some of my students share that their parents work in the architecture field and I hope many of my students are inspired from this lesson and discuss their knowledge on architecture when they get home.

I wouldn’t doubt that I have a bunch of students that will someday be an architect themselves, designing amazing buildings in their future!!

 

DAY 1:

Students learned about Victorian Architecture and learned about some of the common characteristics found within the Victorian architectural style, (i.e., gables, turrets, towers, bay windows, fish-scale shingles, brick and stone details, decorative wood carved “gingerbread” details etc.) and were challenged to envision and create a drawing of their own Victorian style house that included some of these elements.

I showed students a powerpoint of various Victorian homes which pointed out these particular elements. I also showed students a variety of Victorian house drawings students created from previous years, as well as my own examples, to view for inspiration.

Students then were asked to share what similarities they noticed in a side by side viewing of two different Victorian homes on the whiteboard. These images did not include the arrows with descriptions on each house as previous slides depicted.

I wanted to see how much they remembered from viewing the previous slides and through discussion. Students always impress me when they raise their hands to share what they saw, noticed and recalled!! There’s a ton of slides (about 15??) that I go through and discuss before this point. It makes me so happy to see students so engaged!!

Students then practiced drawing these various Victorian elements on a worksheet after doing a demonstration on each.

We also reviewed the Elements of Art and how students would be utilizing 6 out of the 7 elements of art to draw their homes. Line, Shape, Color, Space, Texture, and Value!

Each student received a “step-by-step” how to draw packet (that I created) to look at, if they needed to refer to while drawing.

DAYS 2-3:

I demonstrated to students under the document camera how to begin drawing their homes. FROM THE ROOF DOWN– Starting with the rooflines for the gables. I also demonstrated again how to draw details step-by-step like the bay window, 3D stairs, fish scale shingles, bricks, stone work, gables, and turrets and towers.

I explained (as well as posted on the whiteboard) what Victorian elements/details were needed to be included in their home, but besides that, they had free rein to create their homes any way they wanted!

Students began drawing their Victorian homes on a sheet of 9×12″ 80# drawing paper.

As mentioned above, I had handouts to refer to with photos of various victorian style homes (not to copy exactly!! but to use as reference and be creative!! ), as well as step-by-step drawing packets to use as reference while they drew.

These handouts are print outs from my powerpoint I previously showed them in the last class. ****TEACHERS— I HAVE A FREE DOWNLOAD OF THIS FURTHER DOWN IN THIS BLOG POST!!! BOTH MY STEP-BY-STEP DRAWING HANDOUTS, AS WELL AS THE POWERPOINT, (WHICH ALSO CAN BE PRINTED AND STAPLED TO MAKE PACKETS)*****

Students were instructed to use a ruler to draw any straight lines (just like an architect!) within their work.

DAYS 4-6

Once finished drawing their houses, students carefully colored in their unique Victorian homes using colored pencils.

I demonstrated how to color in the chimney’s bricks (or other brick details within the house) using a variety of reds, browns, tans, and pinks and suggested to stagger the same color. Just like in real chimneys!

I also reviewed/ demonstrated that they could alter the value of the color by pressing lighter or harder (students did this in a previous lesson in the beginning of the year).

Students were also shown how to color in areas showing any stone detail. Neutral colors like: Greys, tans, dark browns, black, white, cream colors were staggered within those areas.

Students could color in the rest of their houses any way they wanted! In previous years I asked them to use a Monochromatic color scheme. BUT—since we already learned about that with their “mini- monochromatic self-portraits” (you can find that one through search section of my blog) they had the freedom to color them they way they pleased! Students were quite happy with that!!!

Students did such an incredible job creating these drawings! They worked very hard and I’m very impressed!

Teachers / educators and anyone really! CLICK Here to a link to download my own drawn FREE step-by-step Victorian detail drawing handouts on my Teachers Pay Teachers page as well as my own Victorian Architecture Powerpoint (which can be printed out to use as a packet for reference!) YAY!

I hope you find them useful and enjoy using them!!! If you choose to download and use them….. I’d love to hear from you and learn how it worked for you in your classroom!

Thank you for stopping by!! Check back VERY soon for a new blog post on…….

…..sorry…….. YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE!!! : )

 

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PRINTMAKING –VASE OF FLOWERS!

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Today in both my special needs classes we printed flowers using markers!

I drew the flowers in vases on styrofoam plates for each student ahead of time with a black sharpie.

Students then traced over the black lines with a dull colored pencil, pressing into the styrofoam. This creates an indentation in the surface of the styrofoam where ever it has been pressed in. With my help and the help of Para’s in each class, we assisted each student hand over hand. This is a great muscle strengthener and fine motor control building art activity for people of all ages and levels!

Once the black lines are traced entirely, students then colored in the flowers, leaves, and vase with washable markers. They could use any colors they wanted.

Once colored, I sprayed water, using a recycled spray cleaner bottle, 6 times on a sheet of 9×12″ 80# white drawing paper. Two sprays at the top, two in the middle, and two at the bottom. Then students helped wipe the paper with a pre-dampened sponge, to help spread the water over the paper evenly.

Then the styrofoam was placed color side down, over the damp paper, and students pressed using their hands to transfer the image from the styrofoam to their papers.

(Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get a photo of these few steps)– then after pressing all over the back of the styrofoam, students used a brayer to roll over the back of the styrofoam to help further transfer their marker image.

Then the styrofoam was lifted off the dampened paper, revealing their wonderful flower print! I LOVE how they all turned out!!

It’s always so fun to show students a new art making process, and students loved it!!

To check out a more detailed description with additional photos on printmaking with markers, click on my 3rd grade art lessons page HERE and scroll down! My 3rd graders are all currently learning about printmaking with markers as well, and will be posting their “Complementary Creature Prints” soon!!

THANKS SO MUCH FOR STOPPING BY!!!

PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON FOR MORE AMAZING STUDENT ARTWORK!!!

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2ND GRADE ABSTRACT SELF-PORTRAITS!

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This fun self-portrait 3 day lesson combines art exploration in abstract art and color theory.

I’ve done this a few years now and it’s definitely one of my favorite lessons for 2nd grade!

More details on how they were created below students artwork!

Students could pose anyway they wanted for their photos— I Love the variety! Some fun and silly, some serious and contemplative, and some just happy and smiling!

DID SOMEONE SAY HEAVY ON THE PHOTOS PLEASE?!!

YOU GOT IT!

DAY 1

 

On the first day of the lesson, I showed students my examples, students artwork from previous years, as well as just the abstract drawings before paint was applied. I asked students what they thought abstract artwork might be while looking at all the examples. Students noticed that the drawings and paintings were basically lines and shapes! We discussed how abstract art focuses mainly on lines, shapes, and colors and didn’t show a “picture” of anything (a person, a dog, a tree etc.)

Students then looked at a fun, quick slideshow of artwork by various abstract painters (Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock and William de Cooning).

Students drew various lines and shapes on 12×18” tagboard in pencil, then went over all the lines with crayons being sure to press super hard (later on we would do a crayon wax-resist). They then filled out a short questionnaire with questions asking about their favorite things and questions about themselves.

DAY 2

On day 2 of the lesson, they painted their drawings with watercolors creating a crayon wax-resist.

While students worked, I took each students photo (which I later printed as a high-contrast black & white photo on printer paper).

DAY 3

In the following art class, students added additional color using NEON oil pastels by drawing shapes and lines on their dry paintings. I LOVE the addition of neon to their paintings!! Adds a nice layer of texture and so much color! This step was a new one this year, and kids and myself are happy of this new edition to the process!

LOOK AT ALL THIS FABULOUS LAYERING OF BRIGHT FUN COLOR!!

 

They then glued their black and white self-portrait onto their painting as well as their printed sentences that were cut into strips ahead of time.

ET VOILA!

I hope you enjoy these awesome abstract self-portraits as much as I do!! 

MORE ON THIS LESSON FROM PREVIOUS YEARS HERE!

THANKS SO MUCH FOR CHECKING OUT MY BLOG! MORE ARTWORK (ALONG WITH SOMETHING EXCITING AND NEW IN THE WORKS FOR 5TH GRADE!!) ALL COMING VERY VERY SOOOOOON!!!!!!

STAY TUUUUNED!!!! : )

 

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MY NEW ART ROOM AND MUCH MUCH MORE! …

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I found out late summer that I was no longer going to have to teach art off a cart, and I’d have my very own art room! Of course, as you can imagine I was thrilled with this exciting news!! I had been teaching from a cart, rolling it with art supplies for each class, down the hallways to each classroom for 4 years in the district I teach now. So since Sept. 2014!

 

I couldn’t wait to set up my new space and decorate all the walls! The room is awesome and has huge windows all along one wall, a sink (my other classroom at the other school I teach at doesn’t have a sink) and is pretty spacious but still cozy!

I took the video above in early December before the holidays, so that’s why you’re hearing “Christmas Time is Here” by the Vince Guaraldi Trio in the background.

I bought all my twinkly curtain lights from Amazon, which are not just up for the holidays but I am keeping them up all year round. I think it adds a nice warm, cozy, inviting (and soothing) environment.

I was so excited to show my students once I put them all up and they looved them! I had kids work with only those lights on in the room for the majority of the holiday season. With all the windows, it’s still plenty of light to be able to see while creating art!

Here are some pics of what the room looked like BEFORE below!

art room BEFORE
art room BEFORE
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art room BEFORE

Here are some AFTER pics!

So here’s a re-cap snippet of SOME of the things we’ve been working on in the art room since September!

3rd-5th Monochromatic Mini Self-Portraits

Students at Amvet in 4th and 5th grade drew mini monochromatic self-portraits. Each class had their own designated color of the rainbow. At this school, I have (3) 4th grade classes and (3) 5th grade classes. At Roosevelt I had 3rd, 4th and 5th create them, since there are only 2 classes per grade level.

Students learned a variety of ways to draw different expressions and what monochromatic means. They learned how they can achieve a monochromatic look by pressing hard or light with their colored pencil to achieve various values of one color, and can create a variety of values by using various shades of a colored pencil.

Students in 1st and 2nd grade drew circles creating an abstract collaborative mural inspired by the artist Wassily Kandinsky (BELOW). They colored using a variety of colorful oil pastels, then painted around the circles filling in the remaining space of the square paper with watercolors. Once complete, I assembled them on a large sheet of black paper and hot glued into place.

1st and 2nd grade completed a Kandinsky inspired collaborative mural

Below are some art lessons we did in order by grade level so far. (These are not all of the lessons however we have finished up to this point).

1st Grade:

Hot Air Balloon Collage

This is a lesson I teach 1st grade every year, but decided to switch it up a bit, by having students draw themselves rather than glue on a photo that I take of them.

To view Hot Air Balloon Collages from previous years – click on 1st Grade Art Lessons under the main menu and scroll down! Or click HERE.

Mixed-Media Alphabet Soup

1st Grade Mixed-Media Alphabet Soup
This photo is from my hallway display from last year. Art will be hung up once the spoons and plastic letters are hot glued into place!! One of my favorite lessons for 1st grade!

Here are some cute pics of students working on their soups!

  • First graders creating their background plaid tablecloths for their alphabet soup!

To view additional mixed-media alphabet soup art from previous years, learn how it was made and what the learning goals are for the lesson, check out the 1st grade art lessons page HERE and scroll down!

2nd Grade:

Birds Eye-View Snowman Collage

To learn more about how we created these adorable snow people and what the learning goals are for the lesson, click HERE and scroll down!

Catching Snowflakes

Click HERE and scroll down to check out previous years “Catching Snowflakes” and to learn more about this lesson!

3rd Grade:

Day of the Dead Skulls

To learn more about this lesson and see additional Dia De Los Muertos Skulls – click HERE and scroll down!

3D WINTER MUGS

To learn more about this lesson and see additional mugs (using paint rather than markers) click HERE and scroll down.

4th GRADE:

Mixed Media Donuts

To view additional mixed media donuts by 4th grade, and learn how we created them, click HERE and scroll down. To view my YouTube video tutorial click HERE and select the video!

5th Grade

Falling For Foreshortening

To view additional Falling For Foreshortening artwork by 5th grade and learn how they created them, click HERE and scroll down!

Holiday Lights

Students at Roosevelt were able to complete this lesson before the holidays but unfortunately, due to time constraints classes at Amvet didn’t have time to create these. Next year I will start this lesson earlier and try to make sure everyone in 5th has a chance to do this fun lesson for the holidays!

This wonderful lesson was inspired by the amazing art teacher artwithmrsnguyen

To view additional Holiday Lights and to learn how these were created -click HERE and scroll down to the lesson!

Here are some fun pics of students creating them! Enjoy!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I’ll be posting more artwork very VERY soon!!

I promise!!!!

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GRID DRAWINGS inspired by Chuck Close! -5th GRADE

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Hello again everybody! Sorry for the long hiatus….. I meant to post this over a month ago when school was just out, but things have been pretty busy around here (and by busy I mean basically just totally chillin out and relaxing focusing on family, friends and my health—-but c’mon, can ya blame me?! It is summer break after all!

 

But back to the art lesson I’m posting about—-Grid drawings inspired by the amazing artist Chuck Close!

This was my last art lesson of the school year for 5th grade. I have taught this lesson now for 5 years (4 years at the schools I’m teaching in now, and 1 year within another district). I think it’s one of the more challenging lessons for 5th grade.

The images I print out aren’t super easy and although students have a choice on what image they want to draw, the lesson requires a lot of attention to detail and focus. Usually it takes students about 6 (sometimes even ­7 (40 minute) classes to complete.

So with that in mind, I have NO IDEA why I planned on teaching it with only about 4 art classes left in the school year…. (you’d think by now I’d of realized doing so would mean kids probably wouldn’t finish. Well… that is what happened. BUT—art isn’t always about the final product. It’s about the PROCESS. Learning about new techniques, learning about different artists, creative decision-making, discovering things about yourself, learning from mistakes and persevering through challenges.

Many students did finish, and I’d say most were probably ½ way finished. I DID however, have them draw on WAY smaller paper. In previous years kids drew on 9×12” or 8×10”, but this time round, I had them draw on 5×7” to help speed things up a bit, while still keeping the same learning goals in mind.

Students worked so hard and I’m truly impressed with their beautiful drawings! Even if unfinished.

Ok, sorry….that was a lot of text to read…  so here’s the artwork!! 🙂

 

Students selected one black and white photo of an animal. They could choose from about 15 different pictures.

I looked for images on Google that had a variety of value changes, were challenging enough in that they had some nice details, but tried to find ones with a simple background. Then I printed each of them as a 5×7” on 8.5” x11” printer paper.

When making a selection, I laid out each image in stacks of about 10 along a long table, then called groups of kids up (5 or 6 kids at a time) to make a choice.

Students used a 1” strip of cardboard to create their grids. I’ve had them use actual rulers before, but it proved to be too tricky getting accurate measurements and straight lines.

They drew a grid on their chosen black and white animal picture, then numbered each square, then drew the same exact grid on a piece of 5×7” drawing paper and numbered that grid as well.

Here’s some pics of students doing just that!

I explained to draw very lightly on the white drawing paper (so later on the grid lines and numbers wouldn’t show as much) but they could draw pressing much harder on their black and white animal pic in order to see the grid lines and numbers better.

To help students draw with a lighter touch, I showed them how to hold the pencil so their fingers gripped near the eraser rather than towards the pencils tip. The closer your fingers are towards the tip of the pencil, the more likely it is you will draw darker lines.

Once their grids were drawn and numbered, they drew just the contour lines of their animal, while observing just one box at a time. Like so…..

 

Once all the contour lines are complete, we reviewed what VALUE meant and after doing a demo under the doc camera, they started shading using various drawing pencils. I had them use just 2B, 3B, 4B and 6B.

I also had small handouts to refer to on a value scale with references on what pencil would probably work best for each value within their picture.

We also reviewed how you can change the value of the pencil marks by simply pressing harder or lighter as well.

Students also learned how to use a TORTILLION or aka a blending stump to soften/blur lines and create lighter values.

You can see the tortillion (not tortilla! Tortillion I joked with the kids) on this students picture of a giraffe.

 

Kids were amazed at how much detail they acheived and how accurate they could draw what they were seeing—-just by simply slowing down, and really paying attention to all the little details and nuances within each and every square!!

 

To view a great video and interview with Chuck Close himself– click on the video below!! 

 

And another if you like!….

 

To view additional Grid drawings by my 5th graders in the past—- go HERE and then scroll down until you see it! This is also where you can view the learning goals of my lesson.

Thanks for stopping by!! I will be posting again within the next week or so—so Stay Tuned!! 🙂 

 

 

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2nd Grade “Thinking of Summer Self-Portraits” and 1st Grade “Dream Houses”

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2ND GRADE- “THINKING OF SUMMER” SELF-PORTRAITS!

Every year, near the end of the school year, I’ve had my students do this quick, fun lesson!

We draw just a portion of our heads large along the bottom of a 12×18″ 80# sheet of drawing paper. I demonstrate on how to draw a “rainbow line” along the bottom and then add eyes and eyebrows.

We talk about different facial expressions and how our eyebrows go up when we get excited!

We went around the room and shared a variety of ideas!  They then drew images on what things they wanted to do over summer break within a large thought bubble. They could incorporate words too, but I told them to focus more on drawing than writing.

I demonstrated on how to draw a few ideas (one being a pair of sunglasses that looked three-dimensional, which kids loved drawing and did a fantastic job!)

Once complete in pencil, they outline all lines with a black sharpie then colored and painted!

One year I had students create a cut out version of themselves. After drawing, they cut out the entire head and neck and then cut the top portion of their heads off and glued it onto separate 12×18″ paper hinged open with the thoughts/images coming out. 

AND NOW FOR SOME CUTE PICS OF KIDS CREATING THEIR ART! ….

I LOVED her t-shirt so much I had to take a pic!

 

1ST GRADE- “DREAM HOUSES”

On the first day of this lesson, I read the book “The Big Orange Splot” by Daniel Pinkwater.

I LOVE this book!! If you haven’t read it to your child, or students you should!

It’s about a man, Mr. Plumbean, who paints his house to “look like all his dreams”. In the beginning of the story, a big orange splot of paint falls on his house. Instead of getting rid of it, he adds to the splot, and paints his home with a ton of bright, vivid colors, and pictures of fun, random things.  His neighbors get upset at him and want all the houses to look the same. Neighbors one by one, try to have a talk with him to change it back, but…. instead… each neighbor gets inspired, and ends up changing all their houses to look like their own dreams!

After reading the story, we discussed how it’s important to be yourself and to not be afraid to stand out. I showed students examples of previous 1st graders dream home drawings, as well as a few of my own, then kids got started!

I had no rules for this art lesson except to add a pattern somewhere within their work! Kids could draw whatever kind of house they wanted! It didn’t have to be rectangular or square like most houses—it could be any shape! It could be a slice of cake, a puppy, a cookie, a robot, a spaceship, a boat, a unicorn, slides coming from the roof to a pool in the yard….you get the idea!

I just wish I took more photos of their artwork….It was on their last art class that they finished them up and time just escaped me!!

Below these kids pics, I posted some other dream houses created by my 1st graders from last year to make up for that!

LOVE THIS STUDENTS T-SHIRT!!! AND FUN MULTI-COLORED HAIR!

SOME PICS FROM LAST YEAR….

 

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!!

TUNE IN SOON FOR 5TH GRADERS SUPER AWESOME GRID DRAWINGS!!!! ……

 

 

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CURRENT ARTWORK IN THE WORKS! (1ST-5TH GRADE)

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It’s been awhile since I last posted, so thought I’d share what we’re working on in the art room! I’M SUPER excited because there are 3 NEW art lessons that we’ll be starting!!

Let’s start with 5th grade!

5TH GRADE – MIXED MEDIA BIRD NESTS

Let me tell you, I couldn’t wait to start this lesson! It’s a perfect one for springtime and the kids in 5th haven’t done any real 3D artwork yet this year, so I thought it was a perfect fit! This lesson was inspired by Laura Lohmann of Painted Paper Art~ Thanks Laura for the inspiration!

These are my teacher examples I created!

It includes an oil pastel background on 6×6″ tagboard, cut painted papers, twigs, model magic for the eggs, and tempera paint. I’ll discuss more on how we create them in a future blog post!

Students in Mrs. Yeomans class started them today, and other classes will follow next week.

We cover ALL the Elements of Art for this one! (Color, Form, Line, Shape, Space, Texture, and Value)

I can’t wait until they finish (it’s a 3 day lesson) and display them all in the hallway! I plan on using twigs to write out “mixed media bird nests” with a hot glue gun above their work!

The rest of my 5th grade classes are finishing up their “Falling for Foreshortening” lesson  (seen below) this week, and like I mentioned, will start the bird nest one NEXT week.

 

I LOVE this rendition of Alice falling down the rabbit hole!! 

AFTER they complete their MIXED MEDIA BIRD NESTS, 5th grade will do a final art lesson for the year on GRID DRAWING! CHECK BACK FOR THAT ONE LATER ON! (If you’d like to view artwork from previous years on grid drawing, go to the drop down menu and select 5th Grade Art Lessons and scroll down to that one, to view some pretty AMAZING art!!

 

4TH GRADE- POP OUT SELF-PORTRAITS!

This is another NEW art lesson, that I’m also VERY excited about! I love the addition of text (listing positive attributes of themselves)  the NEON paper, and the 3D POP OUT effect! I think kids will LOVE it! (See my teacher examples below)

This will be a 3 day art lesson.  This lesson focuses on the Elements of Art (Line, Shape and Color)  but also Principles of Art (Balance, Emphasis, Variety, Movement, Contrast, and Pattern) as well as enhancing their knowledge of facial proportion when drawing themselves!

Students at Roosevelt will start this lesson on Wednesday! Kids at Amvet will begin once they finish their “Enlarged Flower Drawings” seen below.

Once other 4th grade classes at Amvet finish up their enlarged flower drawings,  they will begin the pop out self-portrait one!

The FINAL art lesson of the year for 4th Grade will be “Animal Drawings” (see students drawings from previous years under their 4th grade page, under the drop down menu).

 

3RD GRADE- COMPLEMENTARY CREATURE PRINTS

This one is an oldie but goodie (I’ve taught this lesson since I’ve started teaching) and is a 3-4 day art lesson. I love the bold colors used in this lesson and the creative creatures students come up with!

These images below are of my teacher examples

Here are some student examples from previous years!

This lesson focuses on the Elements of Art (Line, Shape, Color, and Texture).

3rd Graders will draw their own made up creature (this can be anything!) and learn about Complementary Colors and printmaking techniques (using markers and styrofoam printing plates). ALL 3rd graders are currently working on this lesson at both schools.

Then— once they finish printing their complementary creature prints (to learn more about and view additional prints from previous years, select 3rd Grade Art Lessons under the drop down menu and scroll down), they will work on the lessons “Kinetic Piranha” and “Sunset Silhouette” for the remainder of the year (you can view artwork from previous years there as well)!

 

2ND GRADE- SPRINGTIME BUNNIES AND BEAR CUBS

This lesson is also a NEW one!! I can’t wait to start this one with my students tomorrow at Roosevelt!

Here is a picture of my 2 teacher examples below!

2nd graders will have an option of creating either a bunny or a bear cub with their spring flower background! This lesson incorporates the Elements of Art (Line, Shape, Color, Value, and Texture) and includes overlapping, contrast and pattern!

Some classes are finishing up their “Birch Tree Landscapes” (see student example below) but will start this “Springtime Bunnies and Bears” lesson next week!

 

Once 2nd graders finish their “Birch Tree Landscapes” as well as “Springtime Bunnies/Bears”, they will move onto another possible NEW art lesson (this one is still in the works….) and THEN,  for the final art lesson of the year it will be “Thinking of Summer Self-portraits”. Which also can be viewed under 2nd Grade Art Lessons from previous years!

 

1ST GRADE- BUBBLEGUM BLOWING SELF-PORTRAITS

One of my favorites for 1st graders! I did this one last year and LOVED them! Here’s a pic from one of my firsties from last year! I LOVE how she drew her eyes closed and her expression! It really does LOOK like she’s blowing up her balloon (aka bubble)!

Students not only learn how to draw the face and facial details, but we also talk about color matching and trying to best match our own unique skin colors, eye colors and hair colors using crayons.

We focus on the Elements of Art (Line, Shape, Color, and Form), as well as use (Principle of Art) Pattern in the background!

Students at Amvet have started this today and students at Roosevelt will begin their “Mixed Media Alphabet Soup” tomorrow! (See the previous blog entry to view students artwork on that lesson there)

 

YIKES!  There are a lot of classes that seem to be a bit off from one another in regards to what art lesson they are on, but that’s par for the course I suppose when snow days, sick days, 1/2 days, and holidays etc. sometimes throws some classes off track and pushes things back a bit! 

Once classes finish up both of those art lessons, the final art lesson of the year (cross my fingers hope we have time for it!!!) is the “Tanglebird Collage” lesson. (You can view that one from previous years under 1st Grade Art Lessons and scroll down as well!)

 

SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSES – “APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS”

I LOVE these so much! We used a wet-on-wet watercolor technique for the umbrella (using only warm colors), and crayon, oil pastels, and marker for the grass, puddle and flowers background.

They brushed just water over the areas with marker to create a painted sky, puddles and grass.

I took a photo of each student “holding their umbrella” and printed out on regular copy paper.

Thank you to Mrs. Price over at wh_artroom (Instagram) for this lesson inspiration!! I love it!!

 

Phew! I think I covered everything???? Now I need to go take a nap!!

Hope you all enjoyed this blog post! I try to update it as much as possible, and definitely will be posting new artwork from all the above mentioned art lessons soon!!!!   If interested, follow me on Instagram for the latest info on what’s happening in the art room!

 

 

 

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CURRENT ART LESSONS UNDERWAY!! 1ST–5TH!

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Here’s what students are currently working on in Art class!

1st Grade: HOT AIR BALLOON COLLAGES

Students are using the Elements Of Art LINE and SHAPE to create these fun collages! These photos of student art are from last year. To learn how we are creating them and what the learning goals are click HERE. 

 

2nd Grade: BIRCH TREE LANDSCAPES

2nd Graders are learning about foreground, middle ground and background and how to create a sense of space in art for this lesson. The photos above are of student artwork from last year. Some students are finishing up their Love Monsters this Thursday and will begin this lesson after. To learn more about this lesson and how students will create this, click HERE and scroll down! 

 

*****I will be creating a YouTube video tutorial on the Birch Tree Landscape lesson soon, as well as a few “How to draw animals” videos for the lesson! Stay tuned!!!***** 

 

 

 

3rd Grade: COMPLEMENTARY CREATURE PRINTS

3rd graders will start this lesson soon once the 3D Winter Mugs are finished. To learn more on how these prints were created and what the learning goals are for the lesson, click HERE and scroll down! 

I have a YouTube tutorial on this lesson as well! Click under the main menu on “YouTube Tutorials” and view my video there! 

 

4th Grade: ENLARGED FLOWER DRAWINGS 

4th graders are currently working on this lesson inspired by the artist Georgia O’Keeffe! Photos above are by 4th graders from last year. Students enlarge a section of a flower while observing photos, using oil pastels. I LOVE this lesson and how we abstract the flower by zooming in and cropping just a section of a flower! 

To learn more about this lesson and learn how students will create these beauties, click HERE and scroll down! 

 

5th Grade: FALLING FOR FORESHORTENING 

5th Graders are currently working on these fun perspective drawings! These photos above are by 5th graders from last year and previous years. They learn about the type of perspective “foreshortening”, and draw the person’s expression to match what they are falling into, add details to the hands and feet and create a background using colored pencils. To learn more on this lesson, and view additional drawings click HERE and scroll down! 

 

SPECIAL EDUCATION: MIXED MEDIA FLOWER AND BUGS 

Students created these adorable flowers and bugs using cut paper and cupcake liners! Kids glued green construction paper for the grass and flowers stem and leaves, then painted ovals and/or circles on separate paper with tempera paint to create the bugs. Then they painted a cut paper plate for the large flower head with liquid tempera paint.

On day 2, they glued on their paper plate flower head, then a cupcake liner for the center. They then drew legs for their bugs with marker, cut out the bugs and added them to their flower picture with google eyes!

Once finished, I showed them how to draw flowers in grass and they colored in crayon!

Be sure to check out the previous post on “PULLED STRING ART” my special education classes created below!! They came out so beautiful!! 

To view additional artwork by my special education classes, click HERE! 

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Printmaking with Markers on Styrofoam—Complementary Creature Prints!

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Complementary Creature Prints

Here is my latest art video tutorial on printmaking with markers on styrofoam!!

Students in 3rd grade will be learning all about this and will create their own “Complementary Creature Prints” SOON!

I hope you enjoy it!!! 

 

Thanks for checking it out!! 

STUDENTS!! —- If you are looking for my other YouTube Art Video Tutorials you can touch or click HERE to take you to my art instruction videos page on this website. OR, just click on “ART INSTRUCTION VIDEOS “ under the drop down menu!

If you’d like to learn more about this lesson and see artwork by my 3rd grade students from previous years, click on “3rd Grade Art Lessons” under the drop down menu above -and scroll down!

Thanks for visiting my blog!

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Mixed-Media Donuts—-4th grade!

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STUDENTS!! —- If you are looking for my YouTube Art Video Tutorials you can touch or click HERE to take you to my art instruction videos page on this website. OR, just click on “ART INSTRUCTION VIDEOS “ under the drop down menu!

4th graders at Amvet, in Mrs. Buckley’s class, finished creating these delicious donuts!!

 

Students learned about Wayne Thiebaud and his artwork, as well as applied the elements of art LINE, SHAPE, COLOR, TEXTURE AND SPACE to create them!

4th graders at Roosevelt just started this lesson yesterday, and my other two 4th grade classes at Amvet will begin once Square 1 Art is finished!!

To learn more about this lesson, and the steps to create the donuts, as well as view donut artwork from last year, click on “4th Grade Art Lessons” in my drop down menu, and scroll down!

Here is an art tutorial I created on this lesson!

 

Thanks Cassie Stephens for the awesome lesson idea!!

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