Last week I was researching something online and I popped onto this wonders! I saw them and I was like "we had to draw this fun corns". Then we did it and we talk about the colour wheel, primary, secondary, warm, cool colors, ...etc
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Every year we talk about selfprotrait and every year we give it a new spin. These are grade 4 and after lively discussion about proportions and watercolour technique we ended up making thse wonderful ones.
Recently we studied about Still Life with our Grade 1. Every year students themselves design a different set up like fruits, vegetables, flowers, art suplies... After discussion about what is Still Life, origins, techniques, etc... they get create their own
Grade 3s were exploring about new drawing techniques. This time they used white glue for outlining their drawing. Once the glue gets dry the line stays just perfect for the watercolour action.
Every other year we talk about Heather Galler and her wonderful world! Her work is full of patterns and beautiful colors. We talked about her and her work with our second graders and they came up with their vision of Heather's cats.
Our grades 5 took the colour wheel a little bit further. We first made a very complete colour wheel working sheet, with new vocabulary, new terms, etc.... After day one, each student came up with one animal that they could turn somehow into a colour wheel animal. So here's some of them!
Talking about lines with the youngest. We read the book Little Green as an introduction of the lesson, which was perfect. After the book we talk about the lines world. It was so fun because they come up with some unique names for the lines like "Great Wall line' or "Elephant line" . Some of the finished works remind me somehow to some works of Joan Miró. There are loads of ways of making the colour wheel fun. Depending on age / grade you can make it more or less difficult. In previous posts you can see how we made some basic primary and secondary colour wheel umbrellas. Here we take it one step further. Besides of talking about primary, secondary and tertiary colours we add the close-up of a beautiful eye.
We just talked about the colour wheel with the youngest of the school, Reception. We basically talked about the basic colour wheel, Primary and Secondary colours and we ended up making these wonderful umbrellas. I also uploaded the model that we used for them to paint. We made one and then created a stencil to speed up a bit the proccess.
We were talking with our grades 3 about Op Art and how we can trick our eye. There are many different types of Op Art and Laura came up with this ingenious way
There are many ways to show the oil crayon resistance to water. This time they chose one animal to do underwater. Depending the brand of oil crayons the resistance will work better or worse. My advice is to test them in advance so you won't get any surprise.
Every grade make a selfportrait unit, using different medias such as oil crayons, watercolour pencil, colour pencil, pencils, watercolours... On grade 4 we first talk about Cubism and they do their own cubist selfportrait. Right after, we talk about real proportions and they make a proper selfportrait, in this case was using watercolour. I love how much some of them they look alike. We sometimes show it to other classrooms and they guess who is who like 95% of the times, fun.
Our first graders have been talking about the differences between landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes. After our class discussion they made these beautiful artwork.
Picture: Aston Technique: Watercolour After lively discussion with our smallest about what symmetry is, discussing about it, playing/making different activities etc… We made this project.
I previously fold the piece of paper in exactly two parts so they will draw only in one half of the paper, they will draw a half butterfly with black oil crayon. When it´s done, we will fold the paper again and press everywhere. We make sure that the half butterfly pass to the other half of the paper with the pressure we are making on the paper, or at least enough for us to be able to see it. Then we retrace and we should get a “perfect” simmetric buterfly. When all the outline is done, we will use watercolour to paint our butterfly. The oil crayon will resist the waterolour, so the watercolour should not pass the black lines. One of the million things that I love of my job is that I got to discover and to know a lot of new artists, new art techniques, new people... James Rizzi is one of them and I absolutely love his work. His colours, lines and drawing makes him perfect for an art project. Beside Rizzi we also talked about the watercolour resistance to oil pastel.
Lesson inspired by deepspacesparkle. Someone really special gave me this book a couple of years ago, “When Pigasso met Mootise” by Nina Laden. It is such a fun story and the perfect way to introduce Picasso and Matisse. We focused on Matisse this time. We talked about the artist and his life, we saw and discussed some of his artwork and we ended up making our very own Matisse.
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