New Year, New Blog, New Challenge

I love being an art teacher and I devote so much of myself to my students. One thing I struggle with is creating artwork outside of the classroom. I’m sure many of you understand this dilemma! I have found that having this blog has been a great motivation to share and work on new ideas. I decided to start a personal art blog and I am challenging myself to just create something new each month. I welcome all of you to follow me and even to take on an artistic challenge of your own! Click the picture below to go to my new blog, Chromo Life.

Happy new year bloggers!

Christmas Time!

 

Here is the Christmas projects that some of my students worked on this season. I only have a few classes create Christmas projects because usually the other grade levels are finishing projects. I got the nativity plate lesson from The Artist Woman.

Kindergarten Christmas Trees

2nd Grade Nativity Plates

1st Grade Angels

3rd Grade: Watercolor Landscapes

 

Here are some finished landscapes. I really feel this year’s third grade class did an outstanding job with their landscapes! I really went into detail about wet wash and dry brush. I really saw them use the brush techniques that they learned and apply it to their painting.

Do you think this could be real?

I came across this video on stumbleupon.com had to share. Do think it is real? It sure does look like it. Either way, it inspires me to try some finger painting with my students.

Projects in Progress

Work, work, work, work! This is a busy time of the year and it get’s a little hard to post new project details. I wanted to at least share what each grade level is working on. I will be posting pictures of finished artwork as soon as I get a chance.

Kinder’s

Pinch pots

1st Grade

Angel Collages

2nd Grade

We are getting ready to create Nativity Plates this week thanks to The Artist Woman and her great project.

3rd Grade

They just finished their Watercolor Landscape and the Christmas drawing contest for the local newspaper.

Next week we will be creating Stuart Davis inspired Initial Design.

4th Grade

Bible Narrative Paintings.

5th Grade

We are getting ready to start the Paper Mosaic Collage.

6th Grade

We just finished a Roy Lichtenstein inspired Enlarged Comic Panel.

We are going to start the Watercolor Still-Life drawing very, very soon. I really love the outcome of this project.

1st Grade: Angel Collage

Last year I had 1st grade create watercolor resist angels just like this. However, I do so many watercolor resist projects I decided to change up the medium.

Materials:

• 2 - 12x18 white paper
• Black Crayon
• Tempera paint
• Pencil

1. I had the first graders draw with me step-by-step. I gave them a few options on drawing the facial features and I let them choose what their hair will look like.

2. Paint with tempera paints. We talked about tints and mixing white with a color to create a tint. Make sure they do not paint over the crayon line too much. If they do you can retrace.

3. With blue tempera, completely paint the second sheet of paper.

4. Dip and lightly tap with the tip of the brush to create stars.

5. Cut, cut, cut. Oops! I forgot wings. No problem. It’s an easy fix.

6. Glue and DONE!

Here are some finished angels that the students made. I changed my mind and decided to let the kids color their angels with crayon.

Finished 2nd Grade Monsters

Of course I had to make a bulletin board with all the 2nd grade monsters. Everyone just thought they were the cutest things. Here are a few pictures close up. There were so many go ones.