Still Life

4/5 Created a still life Glue. Pastel drawing using direct observation.  They looked at the still life of bottles and apples and drew what they saw.  They first started by watching me draw it, talking about how to draw a bottle and apple correctly.  Next they practiced small sketches 4 times on paper then one time large on the back of the paper.

They then drew their final one on black paper finishing by outlining over the pencil lines with glue.   They next week they chose the colors they wanted to use and filled in the bottles, apples and table with chalk pastels and rubbed them all over with a piece of a paper towel.   In the end we finished by spraying they paper with hair spray to fix the chalk to the paper.   They were a fun project for the kids to learn about direct observation with as well as still life's and Paul Cezanne.

Samples of what i put on the board and they steps the 4/5 students took to complete their projects, then student samples:

Fruit Mosaics

Third grades Fruit bowl mosaics turned into more of a project than i had imagined.... took FOREVER to complete leaving them with one great project for the quarter.   They learned the history behind mosaic art and then how they could create one using cut paper.  It was quite the task to make sure they understood that they didn't overlap the paper but those that understood the concept and took their time did a fabulous job!  Here are a few shots of them in process... never got a finished picture since they went right up in frames around the school but ill get one on here asap.