2nd grade Aboriginal art

We learned about the Aboriginal people who are the native Australians. We looked at the art that they made and what made it stand out from art from other places. Aboriginal art is distinguished by the animal subject matter and line and dot patterns. They would often paint on the bark of trees.
We drew two animals and focused on the use of lines and dots in patterns. We colored with crayon in patterns, created a pattern border and painted over with brown watercolor.

4th grade value hearts

The 4th graders learned about value in art and how to create different values by just adding white. The students traced a heart 3 times, overlapping each one slightly. They picked a color, painted one section of their heart that color and then added different amounts of white each time to each section creating different values.

4th grade cardinals

The 4th graders study Ohio history and Ohio animals in the classroom. In art class we looked at photographs of Cardinals, our state bird (also my favorite baseball team, but that's beside the point) we looked at male Cardinals with their bright red feathers and how they stand out particularly in the winter with a white snowy backdrop. We drew a cardinal and branches on turquoise paper, painted with tempera and added snow using white oil pastel. They all turned out great and the staff has been impressed with just how fantastic the are. :)

Happy February!

Stay tuned for some fantastic heart inspired artwork this month!!

1st grade winter landscapes

First graders reviewed the concept of foreground, background and horizon line with this one day painting lesson. They painted the small grey trees in the background at the top of the page and the larger black trees in the foreground at the bottom of the page. We talked about color mixing with black and white as well.