The Starry Night (1889) “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” wrote Van Gogh to his brother Theo,…
I LOVE these flowers!!! I also think this may be my new favorite art lesson to teach! 2nd Graders did such a fabulous job creating them– SO proud of their work!! Step-by-step directions with…
My groups first created their Alaskan snow-capped mountains using oil pastels, blending with baby oil and cotton swabs. As an added bonus, the room smelled great when we were done! Skies and seas were painted with watercolors and tempera. After these were dry, they added a splattering of white paint for their breaching whales. Orcas were drawn on a separate paper and then glued to their backgrounds. You can find another orca project here.
Winter Foxes, ages 6-7 My little class (6-7 year olds) worked hard to develop this multi-step winter landscape with fox, forest and moon. So many skills and techniques were exercised and so much learning happened in this project! And the best part about it? The little artists were enthusiastic about each and every step involved. Painting tints and shade for sky Finger painting the ground Tint and Shade Sky Creating tints and shades with blue. Using tempera paint, we started with a white moon in the center of our paper, and added a barely there addition of blue to our paint brush by double loading a fully loaded white brush in a teeny bit of blue. We created a second ring around our white moon in a slightly blue (but still mostly white) color. We kept doing this, adding more blue each time to our loaded white brush. Once we reached our full blue capacity, we added a teeny bit of black to our blue to create a shade. We set these to dry. Foxes in pencil Fox Students were given brown drawing paper and drew their foxes following my drawing demonstration on the white board. Students also had visuals to reference at their desk (photographs and drawing of foxes), and were asked to observer all lines, shapes and details before and during drawing. As we drew, we broke the fox down into basic shapes (triangle snout, semi-circle top of head, etc. ) and refined our lines and shapes as we went along, always being careful where one line ends, begins or connects to another. These guys are getting good at doing this independently but making sure they draw BIG enough is still an issue. I like to check for size before continuing, and often ask them to enlarge their head, snout, etc. Once drawn, we began coloring. We went for a stylized fox, so we used expressive and somewhat unrealistic renderings of fur. This gives our fox a textured, fuzzy, furry look, which is what we want, but with a fun and unexpected twist. We began with white colored pencil (chest, beard, tail tip and inner ear) and added shadows in blue. Students were asked NOT to color using typical back and forth strokes, but rather to color using only short hatching and cross hatching in a wide range of warm and neutral colors. Students were encouraged to use as many colors as possible, but to try to use darker and lighter colors where they see shifts in value on their fox photographs (this builds observation skills, and requires them to look for changes in value). Eyes are important so these were emphasized with darker pencils. Once complete, we broke out the soft chalk pastels. To prevent overdoing the chalk (which is easy) we rubbed chalk on our scratch paper, then smudged our fingers in the color, and lightly applied this color to our fox. We used many different warm colored chalk for variety. We cut out our foxes. Trees and Branches We used thin round brushes to created the pine tree using black and green, starting at the top and working our way down in a triangle shape, dabbing brush strokes in layers all the way down. We then added snow on our branches by dabbing white over top some of our brushes. We were mindful of working randomly, using varied sizes, so as not to create an unnatural pattern of snow dabs. Snowy branches Branches were made using double-loaded brown and black paint and pulling our brush upwards and toward the center (stopping short of the moon) and tapering off to thin and pointy ends. This was not easy for the little guys, but giving them a small detail brush for this step helped. Snow on branches was painted on any branch surface that is horizontal. The kids noted themselves that snow can only sit atop branches that stick out horizontally, or else it would fall or slide down. Well done! Finishing Touches Once foxes were pasted on our background, we drew in some distance pine trees behind our fox in greens and blues. We added a finger smudge of blue and green chalk under our fox for a shadow. Lastly, we lightly outlined the edge of our fox with charcoal stick, then smudged, to create a bit more depth behind the fox. Beautiful! So much depth and richness. The kids were super proud. Elena 6 Aditri, 7 Mei Mei, 7 Rune, 6 Yiming, 6 Daniel, 7
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2nd Grade Silhouettes We're very proud of our silhouettes! Art vocabulary words related to this lesson: *horizon line *silh...
These prints were made from styrofoam sheets We began by making contour drawings of different instruments We tried different inks on a variety of papers Some are very subtle and monochromatic And some look like they glow in the dark! Some are classic black & white We tried rolling two colors on one roller We labeled our series and added creative titles We printed about 7 or 8 and mounted our favorite on a background This is a favorite lesson of mine and it is always fun and successful for all ability levels
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Clipper ships glide over the ocean at top speeds. The tangle of nets, ropes and sails, however, can make drawing a clipper ship daunting. Breaking down the ship’s parts into basic shapes helps with the drawing efforts. By the end of the drawing lesson, my students felt empowered with their impressive achievements. I detailed the
Con i ragazzi delle seconde abbiamo realizzato questi paesaggi urbani cercando di ottenere la profondità variando la pressione della matita ...
This was a multi-step project with tons of learning opportunities, and it was just plain fun to see all the elements come together to create a very dynamic (and realistic) breaching orca scene. here. Day 1: Drawing and painting the orca We drew our orcas individually and purely by observation. Students each has an orca print-out at their desk to choose from and to be inspired by. We were careful to make sure our measurements were correct, to get the right shape and proportion. Getting just the right back arch on our orca was key. We then painted our orca with black and white acrylic and created our own grey for shadowing on the white areas, and for adding highlights to the black areas. This gave our orca dimension and shape. Painting orcas Painting orcas Day 1: orcas Day 2: Creating the mixed-media backgrounds; pasting our orca; finishing touches We drew a horizon line in the middle of our paper and painted our background in two sections: sky and sea. We discussed atmospheric perspective and noted that the sky is darker towards the top and lighter towards the bottom. Mountains are uneven and have a shady side and a highlighted side. We mixed our own colors, blended and gradated our layers of sky and sea from dark to light. We gave highlights and shadows to our mountains. We used several different brushes and a palette knife to achieve our results. Using a palette knife on the mountains helped us get that scraggly rocky look. We discussed that clouds are randomly shaped, airy and fluffy, and we blended them softly into the sky for a softer, more distant look. We cut out our orca from last week and pasted it on our ocean scene. Our last step was to add some splashes of water where the orca is coming out of the water. We did this with a dry synthetic brush and white paint, and gently stippled the paint around the tail of our orca. We were careful not to overdo this step. This is quite a sophisticated project. The results are atmospheric, detailed and rich. I'm so proud of these! This project, in all it's rich details, was inspired by the excellent painting tutorial of Wilson Bickford. You can view his tutorial here. Ages 6-10 Ages 7-13
The Goldfish, Henri Matisse, 1912 This Matisse-inspired video drawing lesson (which students can watercolor later) was created for remote art classes at Grace Christian Elementary School. Switching…
This was a collaborative project I did with one of the Science teachers at my school. He was teaching his kids about food chains and wanted an art project to go along with it. He found THIS image via Pinterest as initial inspiration for the project. UPDATE: The poster was designed by art director and illustrator Dhanashri Ubhayakar for the magazine Sanctuary Asia, an Indian nature and wildlife conservation magazine. I turned the digital image into a collage project using construction paper. I used 12 x 18" construction paper. Have a background colour (in my case, turquoise). Then start with your largest animal (the top predator, I guess... the Science teacher explained this part to the kids, heh, heh) I folded my paper vertically so I only had to draw half the polar bear and it also made it symmetrical. I collaged on the eyes, nose and teeth from scraps of paper. Then make all the other animals slightly smaller... My messy workspace below.... Ok- once you have all the animals (our students were required to have 3 animals plus a plant) it's time to layer them and glue it all together. This took some fiddling and such, but I found it easiest to lay it all out and then start from gluing the smallest middle part first (the plant- I lost my mini tree) and work your way up. I used dots of white glue. It went faster than using a glue stick. Grade 7 student results!
one of Klimt's most famous works painted in 1907-1908 and located at the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna.
Spooky Tree Kandinsky Inspired Circle Art adds a Halloween twist to Kandinsky's Concentric Circles. A fun colour-mixing art project for kids.
Way to go 8th grade! Unbelievable work and craftsmanship. Keep it up! Looking forward to the rest of the quarter. -Mrs. Hare
Please Note: All images seen below are of my students artwork only. These photos/lessons are not posted in any particular order regarding the flow of my curriculum. Abstract Self-Portrait Paintin…