I saw this project on Cassie Stephens’ blog, In the Art Room. I loved the bold, bright colors and the contrast of the strong black lines. Cassie was inspired by the art of Dean Russo. I wasn’t familiar with his work but enjoyed checking his work out. Cassie used india ink in bingo daubers to […]
For our last class of the year, we needed a project that could be done in one hour and had a Christmas theme. These jingle bells were perfect. We started out by painting white tree branches and snow on blue paper. We worked on only using the tip of our brush to paint thin lines. […]
I forgot to post these last week. My apologies! Last week, we learned about Paul Klee and his painting, Senecio (1922). We first painted our backgrounds with tempera paint, using a mat board scrap to apply the paint. While those were drying, we drew “Senecio” on yellow-gold paper using oil pastel and added color with […]
Our second day of Underwater Adventures was jelly fish day. Our 2-D project was a mixed media painting. We started with a gradient background in either blue-ish or pink-ish tempera paint. Our goal was to learn how to blend smoothly, moving from one color to the next without a hard line. While our backgrounds were […]
The kids blew me away with the last project of “Art, American Style.” We drew hoodoos from Bryce Canyon. Hoodoos are spire like rock formations. We drew them in black oil pastel and colored them with chalk pastels. We talked about layering colors and blending. These are absolutely stunning! If I didn’t see it with […]
Wednesday’s 3rd-5th grade class finished their Georgia O’Keefe inspired flowers. This project was adapted from Denise Logan’s Amazing Art Projects for Children. We started with a pencil drawing of a flower, then painted the flower in watercolor. After the watercolor was dry, we added more depth with chalk pastels. The finishing touch was squeezable paint […]
I really hope everyone had a restful break. It was great to get back to art class again. I loved hearing about everyone’s vacations. I have some great project ideas and hope I can implement a few of them this session. Today’s 3-5th grade class began a project based on Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings. […]
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