Halloween was in the air today as we finished our Picasso inspired monsters. The students had a great time adding all the finishing touches to their spooky masterpieces.
This great lesson came from Mrs. Picasso’s Art Room.
Picasso Monsters
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Category Archives: Art Lesson
Our Fall Harvest
On Friday we finished an art project that we had been working on for three weeks. In order to make our beautiful fall harvest pictures we first had to make a lot of painted paper. Next, we experimented with mixing our own colours and made the background papers. Finally, on Friday we got to create our baskets and cut out all sorts of fall fruits and vegetables to fill them with.
We love how they turned out!
This great art lesson came from one of our favourite art blogs, Deep Space Sparkle.
Have you harvested any fall fruits and vegetables from your garden?
Do you have a favourite fall fruit or vegetable?
A Very Messy Afternoon!
On Friday afternoon we had a great time experimenting with colour and different texture tools. We created painted paper that we will be using in an upcoming art project. The students loved using the bubble wrap, forks, pastry blender, and metal cups to add texture to their paintings. We can’t wait for next Friday!
This art lesson came from Deep Space Sparkle.
What do you think we will make with the painted paper?
Have you used any other common objects from around home to add texture to artwork?
We’re Going to Do What?
Last Friday the students looked at several examples of non-objective art and then painted some beautiful artworks of their own. After the paintings were dry we added more detail using black paint and spray bottles of white paint. This week we started by cutting our paintings into squares and then put them back together randomly. Some students were a little nervous about having their paintings cut-up, but we all loved the results when they were finished.
This art lesson came from another great blog that Mrs. Watson follows, mrspicasso’s art room.
Another Great Animation
We are really having too much fun experimenting with claymation. Today Sahara, Lily, and Karin shot this super stop motion video. They did a fantastic job of creating their characters, scenery, and story. Great job girls!
Claymation
Many of the 2/3’s are a part of the Tech Club that meets after school on Tuesdays. For the last two weeks we have been experimenting with stop motion animation using JellyCam. We have had a great time bring our clay figures to life using our web cam. JellyCam is very easy to use and when we get better lighting the results should be fantastic. We would love for you to take a peek at some of the short skits we have animated:
Have you ever tried stop motion animation before?
Do you have a Tech Club at your school? What sort of things do you do at Tech Club?
Geometric Designs
Friday is normally our art day, but with today being a Professional Development Day in our school district we decided to find a way to combine art with math on a Thursday instead.
This lesson from Adventures of an Art Teacher seemed to be the perfect fit.
We talked about different two dimensional shapes and then had a wonderful time using them to create these beautiful pictures.
Up Close with Flowers
We started the morning off by dissecting flowers. We looked for all the different parts and tried to figure out what each part was for. Here are some of the interesting things we discovered:
Kennedy-When we took the petals off we could see the stamen
Niall-Inside the stem looked hollow
Lily-Inside of the stem there were little veins for transport
Sahara-We looked inside the stem and it was really gooey
Justin-We used magnifying glasses to have a closer look
Karin-We eventually cut the whole flower off to see the eggs
Ana-There were many, many, eggs
Jenny-The colourful petals attract the bees
Oceana-When you rub your fingers on the anther you get pollen on your fingers
Silkence-The stigma on top of the pistol felt sticky so the pollen from the bees will get stuck
Dante-I learned all the parts of the flower
You can take a closer look with us by watching our slide show.
Dissecting flowers was the perfect introduction to a Georgia O’Keeffe inspired art lesson. Mrs. Watson brought in beautiful flowers for us to use as our inspiration. We hope you like them!
Spring Daisies
Spring is definitely in the air in our classroom and in our community. After a beautiful sunny day on Thursday, we were all inspired to add a touch of spring to our hallways. We had a wonderful time creating fields of daisies. The students did such a fantastic job that you could almost smell the flowers in the classroom. We hope you enjoy our paintings!
The idea for this art lesson came from Kids Artists, a great blog with fantastic ideas.
Have you noticed any signs of spring where you live?
Where the Wild Things Are!
We have a lot going on in our classroom right now. We are making Common Craft style videos about the water cycle, the science fair is less than 3 weeks away, and we only have a week of school before spring break. Mrs. Watson told us we might not have art Friday because there was so much going on, but after the cries of, “Noooo!” and the sobbing stopped she changed her mind and boy did we have fun.
We read the story Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and then we made our own wild things. This coming week we are going to make a mural for them to live in. The idea for this lesson came from Deep Space Sparkle.