First Grade Portraits and Painting Exploration!

Here are some completed first grade portraits!  Notice their painted backgrounds where they used all sorts of unique tools to paint them with.  I'm sure these would be darling framed!!!

Cuteness Overload!!!

If this doesn't put a smile in your heart, then I don't know what will.

2nd graders:  Foreground, Middle Ground, and Background Neighborhoods

**Notice how as the buildings recede the buildings get smaller and less detailed!!  Way to go 2nd graders!!!!!

2nd and 3rd Grade Completed Projects

3rd Graders completed their Gyotaku artworks today.  They are adorable!  Here are a few photos:  

2nd Graders completed their foreground, middle ground, background neighborhoods.  I can't wait to see them all hanging up in the hallways.  So stinkin' cute!

Torn Paper Here, Torn Paper There, Torn Paper EVERYWHERE!!!

Both 4th graders and 7th graders are working on torn paper projects.  You can imagine what the art room floor looked like at the end of the day.  

4th graders are using bleeding tissue paper to create beautiful flower bouquets.  The sharpied design shines through the tissue paper and leaves for a very "watercolor"-like effect.  As the tissue gets wet with the glue, the color bleeds like watercolor as well. 

7th graders continue to work on their Mexican folk art inspired design that is then filled-in with torn metallic papers.  Eventually, details will be embossed into the foil papers and then the entire picture will be painted completely black and the black paint will fill in any of the white spaces.  When it is wiped away it leaves a very antique looking artwork.  Here are a few pictures showing the works in-progress.

You Can Paint with What??!!

To create the backgrounds of their self-portrait pictures, 1st graders spent class time today working in stations.  Each station contained a different color of paint, along with a different tool to paint with.  It's all about exploration and learning how to use different tools to create different marks on their paper.   

Red table= red paint and small cups and straws (to make circle prints)

Orange table= orange paint with corrugated cardboard

Yellow table= yellow paint with sponge stampers

Green and Blue table= blue and green paint with forks and q-tips

Purple table= purple paint with bubble wrap

Splatter paint table= to create splatter paint matts for their portraits

Next week, we will finish up their self-portraits and start assembling these to create stand-out masterpieces!!!

What Ground????

2nd Graders are learning about foreground, middle ground, and backgrounds in artworks.  We talked about what happens as things get farther away in a painting (smaller and less detail) and as things get closer to you they get larger and increase in detail.  

We are in the first stages of our 3-dimensional paper cities.  This week students worked on creating buildings out of paper in the background and middle ground of their pictures.  You will notice in the pictures below that the houses in the background are smaller and contain close to no detail.  The houses in the middle ground are slightly larger and have a little bit of detail.  Next week, we have some amazing surprises that are going to make the pictures "pop" literally!!  Stay tuned!!!!  They are going to be AMAZING!

Quiz your kids:

-What do you call the part of the picture that is farthest away from you?

-What is the part of the picture closest to you called?

-What happens to objects that are farthest away from you?  And what happens to the objects as they get closer to you?