Flamingos

4/5 learned about warm and cool colors and created abstract flamingos using those colors.  They used crayon in the opposite colors they chose to use on the inside of the flamingo so if their flamingo was warm on the inside the crayons were cool colors. then we finished with splatter(blow) painting around the flamingo in the colors of the bird.   We also looked at and talked about the work of Romare Beardon to learn a bit about collage art... it also worked out during Black History month so we made a few connections all around.

We used tissue paper and newspaper on the collage portion and connected it to the paper with either modge podge or a 50/50 glue water solution- both worked great.  Very nice results with this one to spring up our Florida school halls!

That time of year again...

Clay time! the time of year where the art room fills with dirt and dusk and i will prob. get a stellar cold from all the lovely mold growing on the clay... but this year we have fun stuff going on... details and photos to come...

k-1 Pinch Pots (some 1st are going to make slab birds)
2-3 Slab Birds with added tails
4-5 Pinch Pot animals

The ideas all came from my wonderful blogger friends ... i will add their links to their projects when i get my detailed posts up and going...

Wonderful start so far..... now lets just see if i make it through all the germs and dust...

So much going on... so little time....

So many fun things have been going on this semester and time has flown past and i haven't gotten a chance to update... attached are a few pictures of some of the projects we have completed and soon i will get posts up for how we did each.

 K1--

Brown Bear Brown Bear

Value Pumpkins

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Letter Clowns

 LeRoy Neiman Lions

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Keith Harring Motion

Fauvist Colored Rescue Dog Portraits

Illuminated Letter

4/5th grade students learned a little about middle ages art.  For our fundraiser at LMES this year we chose to work with the students first letter to their name and create artwork around that.  The 4/5 kiddos created illuminated letter.  We took a simple bubble letter and embellished it... added touches of nature around them for details and finished with blended colored pencils to create fun letters!

Hatching Elephants

This was the first 4/5 project of the year simple but fun... the students were given  a picture of an elephant just like in the safari landscape project, and were told to draw it.   After that i showed them a few simple hatching techniques and explained how this would cause the drawings to look a bit more realistic. Then they were to color the background one solid color in crayon.  Simple. fun. easy way to start the year off project.

5th Grade MASKS!!!!

This is the BIG BIG BIG project for our 5th graders, they wait all 6 years to get to make their Plaster Masks... we start by making masks in molds from Plaster Paris then they are able to design and paint their masks however they wish, we look at different worldly masks for ideas but the students are able to do as they please (just avoiding masks that looks to Halloween like).  They then dress them up with gems and jewels!  Very fun and creative results!

I also drew a few ideas on the board with the two samples masks i had made, one a lil girlie and one a bit more fun for the boys... showing that they don't all have to be fancy masks with gems.

Matisse Gold Fish

This idea came from the Blog BlueMoon Palette (project here: http://bluemoonpalette.blogspot.com/search/label/goldfish)  and i loved it!!! It can be done quickly as a final week project like i am doing or made more elaborate and last for a few weeks! Over all my students have done a great job doing this project mostly independently.  I have been working on drawing with them an soon hope that they no longer feel they need steps to draw or to follow along with me as i draw and can just see something and draw it, but that takes time so for this one i did a simple step by step on the board and told them to draw!  We also talked about foreshortening and negative space with this project and so far students from grades 1-4 have done a SUPER job!