This project is always a winner with my third grade students! We discussed positive/negative space and looked at how an artist uses space by looking at several paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. I challenged the students to make a creative symmetrical shapes for their stencils. The room was filled with excitement as they cut shape after shape, deciding which one would be their best. Next, students experimented with colors to decide what would work best for their shapes. Students were able to make two pieces of art if they would like, and turn in their best. Students also turned in a written response based on their art. They finished off their project with a gallery walk. They came up with several objectives they felt were important throughout the process and discussed the artwork of peers based on those objectives.
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Third grade used watercolors to paint warm and cool squares. The next week we added our snowmen with tempera paint and the last week we added details with colored permanent markers. We talked about the cool snowman being made with geometric shapes and the warm melting snowman with an organic shape. Students glued their squares to their frame and decorated it to make a winter wonderland.
Students in fifth grade filled the space on their paper with overlapping geometric shapes. They painted with watercolors, using two analogous colors in each new shape to make a tertiary color when they mixed. They learned the wet on wet technique. We connected art and science by using salt to create texture in our paintings.
Third grade continued with their unit in color and worked on the warm/cool color schemes. They absolutely loved this project! Another project inspired by other art teachers on Pinterest. One of our objectives was to draw large and fill the page with their "pet". Students chose either a cat or dog and had some idea sheets to look at for inspiration. I encouraged them to be creative to come up with their own version of their cat or dog. Students outlined their pet with oil pastel and colored with watercolor crayons. They cut their animal out and glued it to the background. The background was chalk pastel. If they had extra time, they made a toy or object for their pet. In case you're wondering, dogs outnumbered cats!
Second grade was learning how to mix colors! They drew their wacky birds and used red, yellow and blue watercolor pencils to mix their colors. They were so cute when I modeled brushing over the layered pencil with water. They clapped in amazement and could not wait to try it for themselves! They got to experiment with making all kinds of colors when they were done with their project.
First grade students learned about the element of art space in artwork. They learned that artists make objects appear close by making them large and make them small to look far away or to show the space between them. Students were able to use the vocabulary to describe where objects appear: foreground, middle ground and background. They were excited to "measure" desks that were close to them and then compare how small the desks in the back of the room looked when they "measured" them! We worked together to draw snowmen 3 different sizes and then add a horizon line in our landscape.
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Mrs. Kendell
I was a graphic designer for many years, and then decided to make the leap into art education. I taught elementary art for 8 years. Archives
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