3rd Grade Watercolor Resist

"What are those small round green things??"

Peas! Carrots, broccoli, radishes, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, tomatoes and pumpkin too! 3rd grade has been working with watercolor resist in our latest project. Each student started out by drawing vegetables with pencil. We wanted to take up as much positive space as possible, so the vegetables were drawn close together. Students went over their pencil lines with sharpie then used crayon to color them in. After the adding a few layers of crayon, we went over the enitre picture with black watercolor. The thick layer of crayon showed up through the watercolor creating a nice contrast between the positive and negative space! Fabulous, 3rd graders!

2nd Grade Mixed Media

Are you Eating a Balanced Breakfast?

2nd Grade has been working diligently on their balanced breakfast plates for the past few weeks. We started the lesson talking about what a balanced artwork looks like. Are all of the objects on one side or are they mostly even on both sides? Then, we did a rough draft of our favorite breakfast foods. Pancakes that look like animals, pizza, strawberries and bacon on the side?? Yum! We used crayon and watercolor for our delicious plate of food and paper weaving for the background. Napkin, fork and spoon, hope you're hungry!


Here are a few examples below:

Halloween!

For Halloween this year the kids were able to dress up as their favorite book characters. Fabulous costumes! We had Thing 1 and 2...

Mary Poppins and Peter Pan...

Huck Finn showed up...

Dorthy and Toto too!

Cat in the Hat!

Here's Old Mother Hubbard...

Tinkerbell...

And the Grouchy Lady Bug and The Moose from "If you give a Moose a Muffin"

3rd Fall Leaves

Just a few of the 3rd Grade finished Fall Leaves Projects. This was a quick and simple piece... Sharpie-drawn twigs layered with tissue paper and fancy brown paper that reminded us of fall.

What's Cookin'?

Kindergarten learned about primary colors (red, blue, yellow) lines (straight, curvy, zig-zag) and Shapes (circle, rectangle) in this scrumptious project. We started with the plate and added parts of the hamburger one by one. Delicious!

1st Grade Mixed Media Cars on Roads

For this project, we used lines, shapes, colors and patterns to complete our cars and roads. We used stamps for the background and shapes for the cars. Nice work 1st grade!

Happy Fall Everybody!

With some extra time in art class, the 5th, 3rd, 1st graders and kindergartners helped make this awesome fall display. Each class had a different task and section of the project. I was so impressed with the focus and hard work these kids put into this display!