3rd Grade Warm and Cool Cityscapes

3rd Graders discussed warm and cool colors.  We made a cityscape by drawing arrows from the bottom of the page and extending lines from the arrowheads.

5th Grade Animal Sculptures

5th Graders were challenged with this sculpture project.  Sutdents worked through the challenge of making a 2D drawing into a 3D sculpture.  Students first sketched an animal head they would like to make, students then made an armature with newspaper and masking tape.  Students then used plaster craft strips to cover the newspaper.  When students finished they were then able to paint their sculpture.

6th Andy Warhol Pop Art Prints

6th graders learned about the artist Andy Warhol and the Pop Art movement.

We began by talking about pop culture. What is pop culture?  We discussed how things in pop culture are different now then when Andy Warhol was living and creating work.  We also discussed how my pop culture might be different then theirs.  We also discussed things that have been part of pop culture for many years like Coca-cola and other brands or food products.  After looking at some of Andy Warhol's work and discussing the process of screen printing students were challenged to come up with their own pop art inspired Warhol piece.  Students did so with the printmaking process.  The designed on a foam square and were allowed to print their image on one piece of paper using four different colored inks. Here are some of the results:

2nd Grade Color Poems

2nd Graders have discussed a lot about color this year. To continue on with the topic we looked at color in a different way.  Each student drew a color and had to write a poem about their color focusing on the five senses.  Students wrote their poem on one day and the next day to finish it off they looked in magazines and found images of their color to make a colored collage.

1st Grade Peacocks

This was a fun one day lesson in which every student was successful.  Together we drew a peacock head. Using blue and green oil pastels students practiced blending and mixing colors.  We discussed some of the cool features of the bird.  We also talked about the difference between the males and females and decided to make a male to add some beautiful feathers.

4th Grade Wayne Thiebaud Desserts

4th Graders studied American Artist Wayne Thiebaud.

 

We learned a little more about him by watching this video:

Students were to make their own Wayne Thiebaud inspired piece.  When looking at Wayne Thiebaud's paintings we tried to break the desserts down into simple shapes and forms.  For example when looking at his cakes students saw that he use a cylinder and with his pies he made a triangular prism.  This correlation of form and shape gave students a different perspective when drawing.  

The next step was to add on the color and make their dessert look like a real 3D dessert.  Using oil pastels students blended together using different values to bring life to their desserts.