4th Grade: Expressive Movement Lines

Fourth Grade discussed different ways of showing movement in art, such as the positioning of the subject, blurred image, repeated image, or lines behind the moving object. We took a look at an old cartoon, "Road Runner" and noticed the moments that the artist used lines behind the characters to show how quickly they were moving. We discussed different types of lines and then created our own expressive movement lines. Students chose whatever subject they wanted to show moving and drew different types of lines from the direction they moved. We then used colorful chalk pastels to draw attention to our different types of lines.

7th Grade: Elements of Art

Seventh grade explored the elements of art. We discussed  how all art is made up of one or multiple of these seven elements. Line, color, value, texture, space, shape, and form. Each students designed a mini art work to represent each element. Learning about the elements of art, helps us to consider the elements that we use in our art to make it more successful.

5th Grade: Silhouette Drawing

To try and learn/remind myself more about who my students are, the fifth graders started the year off with this silhouette project. The students first learned what a silhouette is.

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The students create a black and white border, a silhouette drawing of themselves using a photograph, and filled it in with drawings to describe themselves. Drawing a silhouette outline of a face is not easy, but you can see that some of the students really captured their profile. 

6th Grade: Glue Line Pumpkins

Sixth grade created beautiful fall drawings of pumpkins and other fall items such as corn, gourds, hay, sunflowers, etc. The students learned how to create space by overlapping their objects. They also learned to create shading by choosing a direction of light and adding highlights and shadows in their work.
After drawing their designs onto black paper, the students used glue to draw over their pencil lines. Once the glue dried, they used chalk pastels to add color, blending colors together where needed.

4th Grade: Leaf Patterns

Fourth grade learned about pattern and repetition in art. We looked at a few famous art works and talked about why we think they repeated an image again and again. we also looked at some fabric patterns to help inspire our leaf patterns. I think the students did an awesome job on this project. I really love how beautiful they turned out!

Students started by creating their own personalized leaf tracer. They then used their tracer to create their pattern by repeating the shape again and again and flipping it in different directions. Then they used a black crayon to color a solid black background. Lastly, they used water color paints to add the vibrant colors of fall.

3rd Grade: Picasso Monster Portraits

As many of the students agree, some of Picasso's portraits were a bit odd. We also agreed how interesting they are! Pablo Picasso showed the portrait of his subject from multiple angles, all in one image. The closer we looked at them would could see one eye facing forward and the other shown from the side, or the eyes looking forward but the mouth from the side.

  For this project, the students created portraits "Picasso style" of either a witch, Frankenstein, or vampire. Students used colored construction paper to cut out all the parts, and black sharpie for small details and the background.

7th Grade: Fingerprint Identities

 For this project the students and I first talked about how our fingerprints are part of our identity, which is why we use fingerprints for things such as crime scenes. We also talked about combining the identity of our fingerprints with things about us.
The students first studied their fingerprints and drew them. We then water colored them and created a list of twenty things about themselves. Seventh grade then wrote the things about them in their fingerprints and went over it in Sharpie. I encouraged students to add small images or change the sizing of their writing to make it more interesting.