Just a fun panorama of my art classroom

Art Club Mural

My art club here at Indian Creek is made up of 20 fourth and fifth grade students. This year we created a mural where each student was given a 1"x1" part of a picture and they had to paint it on a 9"x9" piece of paper. I am super thrilled with how it turned out, we placed it in the schools learning lab for all to see!

Picasso Styled Portraits (5th)

This was a major project in 5th grade this year. I started this project by taking my students to the computer lab and letting them explore the website Mr. Picasso head. The students were asked to create a unique portrait using as many aspects of the website as possible then to put it up on the internet for the world to see. 

The second class we looked at a power point presentation I put together about Picasso, cubism, and self portraits. Then the students are asked to draw a self portrait in a cubist manner on a manila 12"x18" paper, then they attach tracing paper and trace the drawing again.

The third day is a fun painting day where the students are given 10 different tempera colors and they paint two papers they can use a ton of different techniques when doing this ( smash their paper with another students, fold their paper in half making reflection paintings. These papers will be used to collage the cubist self portrait.

The fourth day to whenever your students finish the students ail cut a section out of their tracing paper, trace this piece on one of the painted papers (these have been cut into fourths so that they have tons of paper to choose from).then they will glue these pieces down like a puzzle. I tried to get my students to use different color schemes for the background versus the clothing versus the face/hair.

EQ's-

Who is Pablo Picasso?

What is Cubism?

What is a self portrait?

Very Hungry Caterpillar

Very Hungry Caterpillar (K)

   

I started this projects by reading "The very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. The students traced a cup 12 times and they were given a very light green, dark green and a blue tempera paint. I encouraged the students to make every circle different and gave them different tools to explore the painting with (a piece of cardboard, a popsicle stick, and anything else you would like for them to use). The students will paint one red for the caterpillars face. The next day I had the students cut as carefully as possible and stack the circles, then they glued the circles down and we talked about overlapping. the last day that we worked on this project we used marker to add the finishing touches. This project was overall very successful only a few kiddos didn't totally get it but they still learned and enjoyed the activities.

EQ's-
How am I using shape, line, and color in my artwork?
How and where do artists get their ideas?
What is overlapping...?

Winter tree and fox (3rd)

This is a simple and fun winter project with a focus on multi-medium with painting and drawing with marker. I chose this lesson because I wanted to show the students how to make a tree look a little more realistic. the tree was done in three simple steps one painting the tree with the brown tempera. We added the snow talking about gravity and how the snow might lay just so on the branches. The last step involved drawing our own fox and coloring it in and cutting it out, we placed it carefully in the scernery and the project was done.

EQ's?-
What would this artwork feel like to me?
How can you show depth in a piece of artwork?

What does Multi-medium mean?