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.
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.
On Friday, we revisited one of our favourite Canadian artists, Ted Harrison. Last year we used tissue and black paper silhouettes to make our pictures. This year we tried painting with tempera paints. We looked at several of his paintings online and in the books we have in our library. We talked about how he uses line and colour. We knew that all the work we have done with mixing tints and shades would really come in handy!
This week we started reading Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat and so we decided to try and paint our own owls. We practiced drawing owls first and then began our paintings. We learned about “double loading” our paint brushes today and loved the realistic feathers we were able to paint using this technique. This is another great art lesson from Deep Space Sparkle.
Owls in the Classroom on PhotoPeach
Today in art we learned all about warm and cool colours. We had a lot of fun painting “hot” dogs and “cool” cats. The students thought the play on words was really funny!
Hot Dogs & Cool Cats on PhotoPeach