6th Grade: Van Gogh Autumn Landscapes

After looking at various landscapes by Van Gogh, students began this project by drawing hills and shading and blending them with chalk pastels.  Then they did the same for the sky, using a paper towel wrapped around their finger to blend. For the sky they could choose either warm or cool colors, and either a swrirly sky or a radiating sun sky.  Second day, students used oil pastels to create their sky, trees and grass.  On the last day they finished up the details and did a leaf rubbing for the corner using a real leaf.

2nd Grade: Matisse Pattern Pumpkin

I'm finally getting some projects posted! Sorry I've been MIA!  This project was a fun one, borrowed from another art teacher in my school district.  First day we talked about patterns and spent class painting 3 different patterns on three different papers.  We painted with purple paint on the purple paper (9x12), orange paint on the orange paper (6x9), and green paint on the green paper (6x9).  We had just finished learning about primary colors and now we focused on secondary colors.  Next class, students used the purple paper for their background, cut the green paper in half long ways for the grass, and cut out a big oval on the organge paper for the pumpkin.  They used some of their leftover green paper for the stem.  They collaged all of those together and we discussed overlapping.  Last class students make leaves from red and yellow construction paper, and outlined everything in glue. Finally they sprinkled on glitter and voila!