The Longest Line Drawings

Students in grades 4-6 have been working on these fun, colorful drawings for the past two weeks.  This project went right after our Moving Line Drawings, both using colored pencils, and I think my students need a break from the "sit and color" routine we've been in for 4 weeks.  So, next week I am thinking we need to do something fun and fast, maybe with paint :)

For this project, we discussed the definitions of line and shape.  It was quite comical to hear their responses for the definition of "line".  They said things such as, "a straight line...uggh, nevermind", to "something that is either straight or curved", to finally "a segment connecting two points"!!!  Yay!  It was difficult to define something so simple.  We reviewed the different types of lines and went to work filling up our papers with only ONE line.  They could curve the line, squiggle the line, zigzag the line, and so on, but it could not stop until they filled up the entire paper.  Next, we traced the shapes over our drawings and colored in each shape with a monochromatic color scheme.  Here are some results:

Bubble Painting

This was a fun, messy, exhausting project I did with Art Club last night.  I believe that sometimes experiencing art can be more important for primary artists than actually creating art.  These kiddos had more fun blowing the bubbles and watching them pop than actually making the bubble prints!

Oil Pastel/Chalk Pastel Pumpkin Drawings

3rd graders yesterday afternoon learned about depth perception and overlapping while creating these spooky pumpkins.  I like the effect of chalk on dark paper, so we started with a blue sheet of paper.  The students drew the first pumpkin with an oil pastel right in the middle.  Next, they drew the two side pumpkins a little bit smaller and behind the first one to show depth and overlapping.  They colored inside the spaces with chalk pastels (VERY messy, btw) and cleaned up their drawing by re-tracing the oil pastel lines.  Here are a few completed works of art:

Mary Jane's Pumpkins

 

Grace's Pumpkins

Devan's Pumpkins

Pointillism Pumpkins

2nd graders this afternoon created these perfectly plump pointillized pumpkins!  We looked at the art of Georges Seurat and took special note of his use of dots in his painting techniques.  We used several colors instead of just one color to fill up the spaces in our pumpkins like Seurat did in his paintings.

 Isaiah's Pumpkin

Aaron's Pumpkin

 Cameron's Pumpkin

Circles, Circles, & More Circles!

Kinders learned how to cut circles this week!  I gave them squares of paper and showed them how to cut and turn the paper until there are no more corners.  They cut large circles, medium circles, and small circles.  They overlapped the different sizes of circles on their papers.  The next class period, I gave them paint and an assortment of lids to use as circle stamps.  I showed them how to stamp small circles inside larger circles, how to use the stamps correctly, and how to stamp the shape on their papers.

Amir's Artwork

Sidney's Artwork

Samara's Artwork

Iran's Artwork