My Art

There are times that I just need to be creative.  Sometimes it is for me and sometimes it is because a student says you probably can't do this project.  This example is a little of both.

Emphasis in Hearts

I found this short lesson on a blog that I am following.  I have started to follow too many, so I can't remember exactly which one and when I saw it, but I liked the idea.  Basically it is having the 5th graders understand how emphasis works in art.  So what we did is trace a heart any way they wanted at least 12 times on a piece of paper.  I then talked about warm and cool color schemes and had them pick one heart anywhere on their paper that had to be different from the rest.

Actually I was just more amazed at how many different heart patterns we got with the simple instructions of trace the heart on the paper 12 times. 

Elissa

Kimi

Dominic

Karlee

Ok so to get better at remember who did what art work I am writing down the names as I take the pictures.  Now as long as they don't get mixed up I hopefully will know who did what.



Chalk Skylines

Every art teacher has that messy project that the kids enjoy but you are never quite sure why you do.  And every art teacher has that silhoutte of a city skyline that has been illuminated by smeared chalk lights.  These are mine that were made by 3rd graders. 

I am happy to report that this project went better than last week's project.

Abby J.

Logan

Mike

Taelor

Steven

More Melted Crayon

Ok, just had to show off a few more late arrivals.

Alexis

Justin S.

Kristin

Wyatt

Spheres

I pulled this project out of a School Arts magazine years ago.  In fact, I had students paint this project on the wall almost 10 years ago if that helps narrow the year I found it.

I have done this project with 7th grade ever since then.  I like how the project teaches perspective and can let them be creative with parts of the design.  I let them either paint it or use colored pencils.  This year I was not impressed with any of my painters.  Maybe my next six week class will have steadier hands and  more patience.

Skylar

Caitlyn

Ok so I need to do a better job of tagging whos is whos.  Sorry.

4th Grade Seurat

Ok, so I am horrible at remembering where I found a project.  But I found a project where someone had made a pointillism picture in the style of Seurat.  They painted a scene with a lighthouse, but since we don't have many of those in South Dakota we made barns. 

It is not very often I have all of them do the same project, but I wanted them to learn how to shade with different colors of paint and how to layer them on top of each other.  We painted them with q-tip dots, because I love to hear the complaints.  The pictures were only 9x12, but you would have thought I asked them to paint a skyscraper with those q-tips.

They had the option if they wanted to outline with a marker or not.

4pt. Perspective Rooms

Several years ago I took a class from a local artist, Dick Termes.  He makes these amazing spheres known as Termespheres that involve a process that he calls 6pt. perspective.  What he does is paints scenes and images on these really large plastic spheres, but when they spin in front of you it is like you are standing in a room and it is spinning around you.  They are almost dizzying, but they are really cool.

Well I have always done the 6pt perspective with my Art 1 class, but this year I decided to do a long narrow 4pt project.  That means that if you wrap the one side of the project around to the other side they will match up and make you feel like you are in that room.  It is a hard concept for the students to initially grasp, but in the end they get the idea and some of the projects come out pretty neat.

Joslynne

Sammy

Kenzie