Friday, January 29, 2010

Mummies











Students love learning about Egypt and Mummies! These large mummies were made by 3rd graders using metallic oil pastels, metallic colored pencils and metallic puffy paint. We talked about symmetry and used chalk to trasfer one half over to the other side of their artwork before they colored. They loved adding their names in Hieroglyphics down the middle!


awesome video of egyption art!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WbgnOO3vmh8#at=103

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Emphasis Sculptures







Students learned what emphasis means and had to create a sculpture out of junk itmes. Students learned on way to show emphasis is through color. Students hot glued their junk items together, painted everything black., then painetd over with modge podge. Lastly, the students glued their emphasis on. Can you tell what is being emphasized?????

Friday, January 1, 2010

Bike Drawing







Students drew a bike from observation. They then outlined it in sharpie. Next, they added washable markers using warm or cool colors. Lastly, they went over the marker with a wet brush to make the colors bleed.

Tessellations







Rooster Weather Vane







In art class, 5th graders learned that a sculpture is a three-dimensional work of art. A three-dimensional work of art can be measured in three ways. You can measure the height, width and depth. Students created a sculpture of a Rooster Weather Vane, using paper mache.

Picasso Portraits







In art class, we studied the life and art of Pablo Picasso. Next, we drew abstract portraits with a combination of the frontal and profile perspectives of the face. We then colored the portraits with markers and then added water to make the markers bleed.

Adaptive Spider Webs




Students rolled a marble around in a box that had their paper at the bottom and white paint. Next, the added the spider with black paint! :)

Adaptive Candies




Adaptive Pumpkin Patch




This was mostly a glueing lesson.

Adaptive Flower Vases







Students drew their vases with washable markers, then went over their drawing

with a wet brush to make the colors bleed.

Adaptive Ice Cream Cones




Lot of painting paper the first day. Cutting and glueing the next. :)

Adaptive Butterfly




These were made by dipping strings into primary color paints then folding the paper to make a symmetrical design. Students then made paper rings for the body.

Adaptive Dinos







Some years I teach a group of adaptive students (depending on what school I'm at each year) Here are some Dinos they made mostly using stamps.

Collage Self-Portraits






In art class, first graders created a self-portrait. A self-portrait is a drawing of yourself. For this project, students painted, drew, cut and glued!