Free choice painting.

 

Free choice painting is priceless.  It is a great time for the students to let loose and be an artist the way they were meant to be.  No direction from good old Mr. Cleveland....just compliments and positive reinforcement.  A first grader did this series of fruit all with in a matter of 25 minutes.  It is good to let loose once in a while.

Gustav Klimt.

 

 

Fifth grade learned about Gustav Klimt and how he used gold to paint the "Tree of Life".  One of the best parts of being a visual arts educator is that I get to teach Art History.  Anyway, the students used fake gold to paint these beauties, I couldn't afford real gold. 

Fall R.O.Y. Trees.

 

Second grade studied R.O.Y. (red, orange, yellow).  Which are warm colors, which also happen to be Fall colors.  We practiced certain painting techniques as well.  I am telling you, Westside is full of artists!

The making of the bees video.

This is the short video that we put together while the busy bees were working.  It's funny because two of my own kiddos got a hold of the ipad and "video bombed" it in the end.  Kind of like "photo bomb" but with video instead.  I think kids these days are just naturally techno smart!

Texture bees.

Kindergarten learned about visual texture and used a sponge to paint this bad boy....I mean bee.  The students thought it was strange to paint with a sponge until they saw that it makes cool marks into the paper.  We tried to make them "fuzzy".

Ladybug time.

First grade and kindergarten did a oversized painting of a ladybug!  I figure if  we start some Spring projects now Spring will actually get here sooner.  We discussed how to paint shapes to make a picture.  I also tried to get the little students to understand what a highlight is.  Advanced I know.  These look great.  

Chinese characters.

Second and third grade worked on Chinese Characters in class.  We discussed language and how it is very different in different places.  We used black paint rather than ink for these.  it was a good time!

Winter Wonder Land.





Fourth grade did some winter scenes using tempra paint.  They learned to paint in layers, what ever was furthest back in space they painted first.  This created a sense of depth.  They also practice mixing colors.  the object was to get the trees in the painting to be a slightly different shade.  

Clay Hands.

Kindergarten work with clay to create a hand print ornament for their family.  Your hand is only this big for so long you know!  They learned about what a slab is as well as the technique of scoring (which is basically scratching their name into clay here).  

Pointillism Cardinals.

Second grade learned about the painting style called "Pointillism".  It is where you just paint using points or dots.  They used only their finger tips for this painting.  We also went through some basic facts about the Cardinal.  I am pretty sure every dot landed on their paper during this process!

Perspective Sea Turtles.

Third grade learned about perspective and how there are many ways to look at something.  We painted sea turtle as if  we were swimming underneath them and looking up.  We also discussed tints and tones and learned about what it means to be an endangered species.  Ceramic sea turtles are coming!

Owls of pattern.

Second grade drew owls along with me and then used crayon, oil pastel, and tempera paint to create pattern and color.  A little bit of depth through overlapping thrown in there as well.  It was a good one day activity!  Whoo!