Picasso Styled Frida's!!!!!!!

Currently we are exploring art around the world this year. We are exploring artists and folk art from various cultures and countries! This was our last Hispanic Heritage Month lesson and we combined both Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo into one art project! We explored the style of each artist and used Picasso style portraits to make a portrait of Frida! These were done by my fabulous first graders! 

We used pencil to draw our Frida Portraits, sharpie to outline, crayon to color and watercolor paint for our background! The students loved how funky Frida now looks!

Creative wishes art world! Enjoy! 

The Rainbow Fish: 1st Grade

Since this year's theme was "The Art of the Picture Book" I did a lesson on The Rainbow Fish story. This lesson I did a few years ago and have not used in a long time. I revamped it and integrated a wide range of content. This lesson included the following topics of study:

1. Cool Colors

2. Friendship, Caring, Sharing, Teamwork, Together

3. Texture, Imprint, Relief, Clay, Sculpture

4. Writing and Literature(Reading the story, writing-see worksheet below)

 Sorry about these images below, I couldn't figure out how to rotate them but basically they are note cards that are labeled with fish parts and on the back of each card is the function of each fish part. Students received a card and had to walk up to the enlarged fish poster and label the parts and explain what the parts characteristic is.

1st and 2nd Grade Van Gogh Sunflowers!

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This is an image of one of my students in the process of creating her painting. She still needs to add the beautiful red vase in!

 I conducted two different Van Gogh inspired projects with first and second grade. The first grade students painted on canvas and the 2nd grade students painted on recycled cardboard pizza trays that were donated from the lunch room! Each were given the same set of instructions with a focus on observation, still life, creating tints and shades. Students then focused on using their paint brushes properly and blending creating their own color palate.

SEA TURTLES: Eric Carle Inspired Sea Turtles!

I think Eric Carle might be every Elementary Art Teachers favorite Artist, Illustrator and Author! His work is just so playful, fun, and enjoyable to teach children about. Throughout the years I always try to incorporate Eric Carle into my curriculum. This year I did a lot of lesson's using his work and illustrative style to go with our theme "The Art of the Story Book." This week we started Sea Turtle's inspired by Eric Carle's book Animals, Animals. This book is filled with beautiful illustrations of a variety of Animals and incorporates some wonderful poems to go along with each animal.

This is the image we are using as inspiration for our Art Lesson. 

This is the wonderful book we are using that has a wide variety of Poems and Animals. Students will be creating their own Animal Poem to go along with their Sea Turtle art piece when they are finished.

We also incorporated some printmaking techniques....

And bubble wrap is a great way to add texture to make an ocean background!

We just started to make our ocean paper, can't wait to share the finished results!