The Great Copy

These 3 second graders copied the Statue of Liberty from my computer after they finished their work. My school is Freedom Elementary and every year we have a school-wide patriotic assembly on Nov. 12th, so we've been focusing on patriotic symbols in art class and they wanted to continue working on the theme. The Statue of Liberty is a challenge to draw and they did a great job!

Bat Drawings

Learning to draw by copying is a tried and true method and nowadays it's so easy to find images of line drawings for the kids to copy. These were drawn by third graders.

Frankenstein's Sister

Little Monsters

My kindergarteners made Frankenstine for Halloween but this class finished the day after, so I read My Monster  Mamma Loves Me So to them and added some purple and orange painted paper to the mix and voila. Adorable little monsters painted by adorable...

I Want My Mummy!

Spooky Halloween landscapes with a limited palette and tinting. Grade 3.

Thank you PTO!!!!!!

Our PTO's generous gift card to Walmart bought rainbow yarn, sharpies and googly eyes for art.
Thank you so much!

Day of the Dead

Second grade painted the dancing skeletons and fifth made the sugar skulls. Still more images to come...

The Dot, Circle Prints and Op Art Collages

I started the year off with The Dot with K and 1, then they did the line painting from an earlier post. Then k did the circle prints. The circle prints were a big hit and I'm going to do them again next year and I'll likely do it with first grade this year. You can see the dot had some interesting results. The kids were happy they didn't have to just paint the dot, or just the outside of the dot.  Third grade made the op art  collages. On week 1 they learned about 1-point perspective and drew cubes and houses and on week 2 we watched and discussed Op art by Jamison Cook from youtube, then we started the collage, which took two weeks to finish.

Scarecrows

I did this collage with second grade. We read the Lonely Scarecrow for inspiration.

Straight Line Wonder

I did this project with kindergarten and first grade. We read, discussed and kindergarten even acted out The Straight Line Wonder, by Mem Fox for this project's inspiration. The book's about a line that doesn't want to be straight any more and the kids just love it. It's a perfect book for introducing lines in an artwork. As you can see, we also used color, shape and pattern too. I love all the different interpretations.

Surreal Landscape

My fifth graders learned about surrealism and 1 point perspective. We observed that many surreal paintings were images of landscapes that included disparate images, such as these:

 We made our landscapes with colored chalk and the cubes were drawn with colored pencil. The cubes were placed to show movement as if they were tumbling from the sky.