1st grade used white paint to make stars and moon on black construction paper. They then cut out shapes and glued them on paper to create houses and buildings resembling their community. I absolutely love how these came out.
City at Night
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Falling For Foreshortening
My 4th graders really enjoyed this lesson. After tracing their hands and feet, they drew and colored themselves as astronauts. Then they painted the background black and used oil and chalk pastels for stars, planets, UFO’s, etc.
Falling for Foreshortening
Falling for Foreshortening
Falling from Space
Falling for Foreshortening
Falling from Space
Pop Art Rocks
Here is a cool High School Lesson where I introduced Pop Art and the work of Roy Lichtenstein to my students. I showed them some examples and discussed the meticulous use of benday dots. The students first searched for a magazine image of their choice. They then traced the image using contour lines only. They then transferred the image on white paper using charcoal transfer paper. Next students outlined their image using a black sharpie. Students then began to paint their design using primary colors only. I had my students use Q-tips for their benday dots, some chose to use a ruler aswell to line them up properly. Remind your students to practice their dots on a seperate paper prior to beginning. Once students are done with their dots they will use black acrylic to paint everything they outlined in sharpie. I had my students add a caption to give their design a more comic book effect, however it is not necessary. Have fun🎨
Warm & Cool Kandinsky
My students learned about warm and cool colors by looking at the art work of Kandinsky. I first had them divide their paper into six squares. I had them paint warm colors first, then we painted our squares in cool colors. I then went over patterns with them and had them make a warm, cool, pattern with their circles. We used colored construction paper for the circles. You might want to remind your students to start with the largest circle and make sure they look at the color of their square to create the pattern. So if their square is yellow, which is warm, their 1st circle should be a cool color, and so on. It gets a little technical however this core relates to math, students should know how to create AB patterns. Remember be Art Smart and have fun. Enjoy😀🎨
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