Ice Towers

With freezing cold temperatures upon us I thought it might be fun to create some front step art. The cold weather cooperated and I was able to start a little village of ice towers. Some did not freeze all the way through but it left a great opening for lights!
Hope you are all staying warm and enjoying this season!

Romare Bearden Inspired Collage

Welcome back! and Happy New Year!
Today we took a look at the collage work of Romare Bearden. We had a great discussion about his style of work and how students could create this look themselves. We had oil pastels, newspaper, magazines and a huge pile of scraps that we have been saving since the beginning of the year. All of these supplies were used to create self portraits!

Inspired By Matisse

Inspired by Matisse this week students created some amazing bird images by cutting and pasting paper. They also included wonderful organic shaped borders to their frames.
Enjoy the holiday weeks to come and all the snowy fun that you can!

Snowmen! Near, Far and In Between!

Today we used an imaginary telescope to zoom in on a snowman. I read the book All You Need For a Snowman by Alice Schertle. We looked closely at the illustrations and talked about pattern as well as foreground, middle and background.Students drew three different snowman pictures using colored pencil demonstrating near, far and in between!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a wonderful and safe holiday!

Mayflower Art

This week we continued our discussion of shapes. I read the book Ship Shapes by Stella Blackstone. We had a lovely discussion about different types of shapes including the semi-circle, which was new to many students! The book has wonderful collage like illustrations. Since Thanksgiving is nearly upon us it seemed appropriate to do a project incorporating the Mayflower!

Miro Inspired People in Motion

Today we took a look at a book titled Shapesville by Andy Mills, Becky Osborn, and Erica Neitz. This is a wonderful book about being happy and proud of who you are and respecting those around you. The illustrations are characters made from many different shapes, sizes and colors emphasizing the point of accepting everyone for who they are.
Next, we looked at some work of Miro. We discussed what a drawing might look like of a person standing still with straight limbs and what one might look like of a person in action. Students then drew an image of a person in action in oil pastel and finished it off with brilliant watercolor!