1st Grade: Claude Monet Water Lilies

This oil painting by Claude Monet depicts his impressionist version of water lilies on a pond. For this project, first grade used markers and water, green oil pastel, and tissue paper for the flowers. We discussed reflection of color on the water as well as a new way to create space, by making things smaller that are in the distance. As you can see in their art, the water lilies in the background become smaller as the are further away from us. 

3rd Grade: Van Gogh Sunflowers

4th Grade: The 100 Color Challange

How can you use red, yellow, blue, black and white to create 100 colors? Well 4th grade can certainly show you how! Mixing our tints and shades as well as experimenting with new colors. We only had so many classes that we cold spend on this challenge, so not everyone was able to complete it, but I am confident they can now mix their own colors!

3rd Grade: Jelly fish

These jellies are getting our students ready for summer trips to the beach, although I hope none of students come across any jelly fish while they are there. In this lesson, the third grade mixed and painted their own tints and shades of a color. A tint of a color is when white is added and a shade is when black is added. The tints and shades were used to create a gradation scale in the background, as if the water is getting deeper and darker. Students splattered painted the background with white paint to add the look of bubbles. The jelly fish and seaweeds were added using oil pastels.

1st Grade: Spring Chicks

Spring is in the Air! Although it doesn't quite feel like it on this 55 degree May day. First grade painted spring chicks to help brighten the halls as we approach summer. For this project the students were required to paint their chicks in rainbow order, using water color paints. The tricky part, is that they needed to mix their secondary colors on their own. As you can see they did an excellent job! The students also learned a simple way to create space in their art, by overlapping. As you can see the six chicks would not fit on their page unless some are overlapped. We discussed how when objects are overlapped, it appears that one is in front of the other, creating some distance in our art! Such a simple concept, but a very new thought for some of our first graders. The best part of these paintings is that the students had the freedom to add "accessories" ro their chicks. i love the little additions they made.