6th Grade The 6th grade students are learning about Vincent Van Gogh and his style of painting. Each student chose a Van Gogh painting and created a rendering of it. Oil pastels were used to mimic his brush strokes and color .
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5th Grade EDU The 5th Grade EDU students made City Prints. We focused on creating cities on foam board that showed depth and overlapping. The students used watercolor to paint a two-part background, focusing on warm and cool color washes. The students made prints of their cities on the warm side of their background, and ghost prints on the cool side to give the sense of a reflection.
5th Grade The 5th grade students worked on creating realistic animals for this lesson. Each student chose an animal of their liking. Using oil pastels, we focused on color, blending and overlapping. Backgrounds were added to show the environment where the animal would live. 6th Grade The 6th grade students did observational drawings of their shoes. They focused on only drawing what they see and incorporating accurate detail and coloring. Sharpies and colored pencils were used to color in. 6th Grade Round 2 of Plaster masks!
4th Grade The 4th grade students learned about artist, Wayne Thiebaud. We looked at his painting of various desserts and foods, and how he turned everyday food items into art. The students chose a picture of a cupcake, using chalk pastel we made life-like drawings of the cupcakes. The students learned about blending and overlapping to achieve realism. 4th Grade The students created paintings inspired my artist Piet Mondrian. We discussed his use of the primary colors and how his composition was made up of basic rectangles and squares, or geometric shapes. Using his techniques, of a simplified grid, the students made their own version of a Mondrian painting.