3rd Grade - Pop Art Ice Cream Paintings

Students had a lot of fun creating the most wonderful and delicious picture of ice cream that they could think of.  These began as a pencil drawing and were painted with watercolors, mostly using the "wet-on-wet" technique.  The last step was to outline using black sharpie. 

3rd and 4th Grade - Rene Magritte portraits

Students in my 3/4 combo class discussed Rene Magritte's Son of Man painting as inspiration for this artwork.  They liked how the apple in front of the businessman's face really made them think and wonder why it was there.  They then painted their own portraits, but instead of adding their facial features, they created an object out of oil pastel on a separate piece of paper to glue on top.

6th Grade - Pop Art Self-Portraits

Students began these colorful Andy Warhol-style paintings with a small drawing (6"x6") of themselves.  They used a mirror to get a close look at their own unique facial features.  Once completed, they used the graphite transfer technique to apply their portrait 4 times on the the larger, 12x12 piece of paper.  Next, they applied a different color "family" to each of their portraits; warm, cool, monochromatic and complementary colors.  It was a long process but worth the hard work!

Kindergarten - Model Magic Sculptures

Kindergarten students learned about sculpture for the first time in this lesson.  Their challenge was to use a package of white model magic clay and colored wires to create a sculpture that showed good balance.  They got to add color on their model magic with markers when completed.

4th Grade - Picasso Portraits

Students learned about Pablo Picasso and other cubist artists during this lesson. They used this style when drawing a portrait. Next, they painted torn tissue paper pieces inside each shape of the portrait using watered down glue. The backgrounds were painted with tempera.

5th Grade - Flowers with an "Ism" Twist

Students first put their still-life drawing skills to the test and drew a flower pot. Next, we discussed and looked at examples of three different styles or "isms" of art that they could use to transform their flower drawings; cubism, impressionism and pointillism. Some students chose to incorporate more than one style. Results were phenomenal!

2nd Grade - O'Keeffe Flower Drawings

Students learned about the artwork of Georgia O'Keeffe. They used a a viewfinder on a flower image of their choice in order to "zoom in" on a particular area for their drawing. They used chalk pastels to color their flower and tempera paint for the background.