3rd Grade: James Rizzi Skylines

             James Rizzi is a New York artist who transforms the New York skyline into a happy animated painting. The third grade students looked at these two paintings of James Rizzi's, and then created their own paintings based off them.



            The students had a few requirements. They needed to have at least six buildings in their painting, they needed to have buildings over lapping, the buildings could not all be the same shape, the buildings needed faces, and they needed the skyline to go from edge to edge of the paper. That is a lot for a third grader to remember, but they turned out great.
           Third grade first drew out their skylines with pencil. They then went over their pencil with Sharpie. Last, they painted the skyline using water color paints.