This week both my 3rd-5th and my 6th and up groups learned about pop artist, Roy Lichtenstein. We looked at his work and discussed the graphic line and how he showed emotion in his cartoon-like faces. I showed students the basics of facial proportion to get them started. We looked at ways to show emotion […]
My Kindergarten -2nd grade group have been working on Pop Art Self Portrait Collages. We began by drawing a self portrait on white drawing paper. Then, we cut out our face, hair, and shirt to make templates for collage. Since we were studying Pop Art, students were free to use whatever colors they wanted. We […]
My oldest group took on a very challenging project for our Picasso Blue Period focus week. I did this project in Carla Sonheim’s “Y is for Yellow” class. I think it is a great project for learning about value and learning how to build up color in watercolor. We started by drawing from Picasso’s original […]
Our theme this week was Picasso’s Blue Period. For the 3rd-5th grade classes, we did blue portraits, exploring tints and shades of one blue color. I went over proportions of a face but let them decide who the portrait would be of, themselves or an invented character. They also got to decide the location of […]
My 6th grade and up class completed their Stravinsky portraits. I let them add color using a variety of water based materials (watercolor pencils, ink pencils, gel crayons, etc… I really think they turned out great. They each have such unique personalities.
I am having so much fun with my older class. I really want to help them take their drawing skills to the next level. I am incorporating exercises from Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. One exercise from the book is to copy Picasso’s portrait of Igor Stravinsky, upside down. […]
Our last 2-D project of the Walk Like an Egyptian workshop was a portrait of Tutankhamen, aka King Tut. We read Tutankhamen’s Gift by Robert Sabuda. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of Tutankhamen’s childhood and how he became a Pharaoh. A portrait project provided an opportunity to discuss facial proportions, where do the […]
For our last class of the year, I wanted to do something loose and fun. I’ve been wanting to do this one for awhile. Fred Babb was an artist from California. I purchased a book of his posters and placed some of them on the board. They are all bright and loose portraits and feature […]
For the last project of the session, I needed a project we could all finish in one hour. This project fit the bill and gave us some practice on facial proportions, color mixing, and painting techniques. We began by reading Do You Have a Hat? by Eileen Spinelli, Illustrated by Geraldo Valerio. It is a […]
Today is President Lincoln’s birthday. So this week we have been creating Lincoln inspired projects. We began by reading Abe Lincoln’s Dream by Lane Smith. In this story, a little girl leads Abe Lincoln’s ghost on a tour, showing him how things have changed since he was alive. Along the way, they share a few […]
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