Monet's Water Lilies

For the last  project of the year my K1 Kiddos played around with the starting stages of collage.  We started by watching the Movie: Monet

Then they painting a piece of 9x12 paper with different colors of blue and purple tempera cakes creating movement in overlapping to create their pond.  The next class they cut out bean shaped lily pads and used tissue paper(twisting the little square pieces on the back of their pencils) to create pretty little flowers to go on top of them.  We overlapped the two colors of green and then glued the little flowers on top and then onto the pond and they were done! Very quick and fun project for the end of they year! Great way to use up old pieces of used green paper too!

A Few Samples:

 Students were asked to have at least 2 big lily pads but if time allowed or they worked to small they could add more to their pond.

Mothers Day Flowers

I found this sweet little projects on the art blog Kids Artist this morning and had to try it out! http://kidsartists.blogspot.com/2011/02/wild-flowers.html

Changed it a little to work with what i had on hand and had the kids use different colors of Green construction paper crayon on 18x12 black paper to create the stems then using just the Tip of the brush the created the yellow center with Tempera Paint then used the same technique for the white petals.

LOVE how they are coming out and only took ONE 40min class to complete!

Thanks for the great idea Kids Artists!!!!

Japanese Cherry Blossoms

Perfect project for K-3!  The photo pretty much explain it all but the quick steps were:

1- paint the paper one color
2- Use paint wash and a straw to blow across the page from all angles to create the branches
3- add small red&pink abstract shapes to create the look of the cherry blossom on the branch

Georgia's Flowers

Georgia's Flowers!

Simple project that has been done with many on Georgia O'Keeffe,  I had my 4/5th grade students used direct observation by looking at artificial flowers and drawing the  flower so that it touched at least 2 sides, hopefully 4 sides of their paper and then outlined it with sharpie and painted them with water colors, the photos explain more... simple project that has beautiful results!! 

My notes for them on how the flowers should/could look after they draw them, and how to crop their practice sketch down so that the flower touched all the sides. 

Below are the starting steps on drawing the flower, they picked a fake flower and used direct observation to draw it....

Then they went over ALL pencil lines with Sharpie...

Then they painted with watercolors, using different intensities of the color to show depth, they finished by choosing on contrasting color to paint the background to make their flower POP!

Picasso took over the Art room!!

All of my students created a Picasso inspired project this semester. 

K-1 students created Picasso's Flowers,  by tracing their hands and adding green stems with markers then testing their cutting skills by creating the flowers. 

2-3 students created a collage in the crazy abstract style of Picasso using cut paper and then finishing with a black paint outline.

4-5- This was the project of the year! We started by studying Picasso's Old Guitarist and then broke down the parts and drew the man together as a class.  We then discussed Monochromatic color schemes and how you make tints and shades of the same color.   The students had a lot of trouble with proportions when we first started this project so it took some time but i created scaled boxes which i had the students trace on their papers to then draw each body part in.  The results aren't perfect but then again, what Picasso art work is?