Eric Carle

 

The first grade and I watched a video animation of the story "Papa, Please Get Me the Moon" by Eric Carle. Then the students painted the background and sponge painted the moon. After drying the next week they constructed a version of the book cover and added a picture of themselves climbing up the ladder to the moon. The face on the moon was made with black chalk pastel.

Balancing Robots

Look at these wacky 4th graders. They got a little science and art with the balancing robot project. There is a secret in the hands of the robots that helps them to balance.

I hope they are having fun with them at home.

Cracked Wall

The 7th grade watched a video that showed step by step how to draw a wall cracked to show exposed bricks. Everyone did an excellent job. We would stop the video and I would work individually with the students to point out adjustments to make. They handled the shading and rendering quite well.

ATC (Artist Trading Cards)

It's that time again. The 3rd grade class made art trading cards to exchange with the Murphy School in Weymouth. We ended up with about 50 cards! 

Can't wait to see what the 3rd graders at Murphy did for us.

Fringe Tree Transformed

The  K2 made an excellent Christmas tree for the art room and we had it all decorated with ornaments they made. Every year I like to transform the tree into something else after Christmas is over. This year I made it into a lady with a bee hive hair-do. Then I used dyed coffee filters the students made and turned them into bows for her hair. I think we will have her hair covered in bows soon.

Vikings

With the release of Rick Riordan's new series about Norse Mythology I thought it would be a good time to work on some Viking projects with 5th grade. Here are a few that are ready to view. Next week I will have more to post. The students used step by step directions to draw a basic long ship. The ship was colored with colored pencils and the sky was done with watercolor.

Symmetry

The 6th grade and I talked about what things we can find around us with symmetry. As an exercise the students got a half picture of an animal, bug or object on a piece of drawing paper. They were then asked to draw the mirror image. First with pencil then add color pencil. I have just a few here to show off. We had many that came out excellent. 

Snow in the City

We have been focusing on snow in K2 art class. This week we talked about how the snow will collect on top of buildings. Then they made their own snowy city scene using newspaper, paint and chalk.