4th grade Cardinals

These paintings are awesome! The 4th grade course of study includes learning about Ohio animals. This translates to drawing and painting our state bird, the Cardinal! We looked at pictures of

Cardinals and students drew the cardinal of their choice. We used tempera paint and white oil pastel for the snow. 

4th grade Van Gogh clay tiles

Every year, 4th grade creates tiles out of clay depicting ether Starry Night or Sunflowers by Van Gogh. They have become a favorite project among students and parents. 

Students learned about Van Gogh's style if painting and his use of texture in his work. Clay is the perfect medium in which to explore texture. Students created their tile then drew into the clay adding texture as they went along. Glaze was used to finish the tiles. 

4th grade Picasso faces

4th grade petroglyphs and pictographs

The 4th grade is finishing up a project about Native American Rock Art. The Native Americans created petroglyphs (rock carvings) and pictographs (painted or drawn images) which tell stories with pictures and symbols. 

The students drew an animal on tag board, cut it out and taped it to brown paper. Using a beater, they rolled ink over the animal. When the animal was pulled off an outline remained. We used oil pastels to draw Native American symbols for our pictographs.  

The kids enjoyed this and the projects turned out great! Many are already on display in the 4th grade hall way! 

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.