Georgia O'Keeffe Flowers by 5th Grade

Georgia O'Keeffe flowers by 5th grade! This is my FAVORITE project to do with 5th grade every year because the results are always AMAZING! Throughout the years I have saved a million photographs of flowers. Yes, photographs from calendars, posters, magazines you name it! Students discuss what a view finder is and create their own using a piece of square scrap paper. We then move it around the page to find the best abstracted enlarged shapes and composition to draw on their page. This does get very difficult for them to comprehend at first, so it is good to practice and demonstrate with a few photograph examples. We also look at Georgia O'Keeffe's work and discuss her life, work and compositions of her pieces. Visit my Teachers Pay Teachers Store for the Resource Worksheet we used for this lesson!

Students each get a piece of 12X12"inch white drawing paper, 90lb, great for watercolor and all drawing and paint materials. They sketch with pencil and then outline with sharpie.

We used watercolor pencils, watercolor paints, liquid watercolors and watercolor crayons to complete the painting steps. We discussed layering colors and mixing colors to make new ones. Sometimes students think you can't mix watercolor paints together, it is quite interesting! You might have to demonstrate how to mix colors with the students :)

Here are some of the awesome products I used for this lesson. I hope your students love these as much as mine did!

Sargent Watercolor Crayons

Prisma Watercolor Pencils

Here are the final results!

Vocabulary: Composition, Georgia O'Keeffe, Watercolor, View Finder, Enlarge, Blending, Color Theory, Abstract, Shape

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The Creative Minds Accomplishment!

My art club, The Creative Minds worked hard on their bench for the playground! Our high school students in the Woodshop class made it and the money for supplies to build it was from a wonderful family in our district. Now our students have a beautiful bench to enjoy! 

Our Creative Minds Club is a volunteered community service learning group. In consists of my 6th grade students who meet once a month. We meet the first Thursday of each month for an hour and a half. We do artwork and projects to make our school community a gem of artistic beauty! The name was inspired and created by  my husband. Pretty creative I think! 

What do you do in your art clubs? I would love to hear your stories! 

District Art Show Fun! Kindergarten-12th Grade Student Work!!!!!

This years 2015-2016 District Art Show was a blast! I can't believe we have only 26 days of school left! My has the time flown by. This show you see consists of one High School, One Middle School and Three Elementary School student work. Just to give you an idea, each elementary school has about 600+ students. This show does not have one of every student's piece in it, this show is to showcase some of the most talented kiddos. At our elementary schools we each have a curriculum fair. This is a night where all subjects are showcased and this is our elementary school art show night. So yes, we have two art shows, it is a lot of work but it is worth it! It is so cool to see some of my students grow and show off their talents in high school and it is awesome for families and students to come out and see the progression of the arts from K-12. Enjoy! I can't wait to see what your shows look like. 

This year as teachers we put our own work in the show to showcase at the back of the gymnasium. Every year our students have kept asking to see our work so as a department, that is just what we did this year!

My colleague did these AMAZING taped 3-D people with her 6th grade students. Aren't they so fun!! They are hung from the ceiling with fishing line and binder clips. Great to look invisible.

This years 2015-2016 District Art Show was a blast! I can't believe we have only 26 days of school left! My has the time flown by. This show you see consists of one High School, One Middle School and Three Elementary School student work. Just to give you an idea, each elementary school has about 600+ students. This show does not have one of every student's piece in it, this show is to showcase some of the most talented kiddos. At our elementary schools we each have a curriculum fair. This is a night where all subjects are showcased and this is our elementary school art show night. So yes, we have two art shows, it is a lot of work but it is worth it! It is so cool to see some of my students grow and show off their talents in high school and it is awesome for families and students to come out and see the progression of the arts from K-12. Enjoy! I can't wait to see what your shows look like.

One of my proud 5th grade students showing off her clay Mexican Metepec Sun!

Check out these AMAZING clay dishes made by my colleague from the other elementary school. They are clay and were painted with tempera paints. They were then sprayed with Modge Podge. SUPER AWESOME!!!!!!