Roy Henry Vickers Inspired Art
I REALLY love how this art project turned out.
We are starting an Aboriginal stories unit and so, students had the book "The Elders are Watching" read to them. They did a reflection activity on the book and then created an art project inspired by some of the art within the book.
Materials used for this project: construction paper and glue
We are starting an Aboriginal stories unit and so, students had the book "The Elders are Watching" read to them. They did a reflection activity on the book and then created an art project inspired by some of the art within the book.
Materials used for this project: construction paper and glue
Rene Magritte Inspired Art
Our latest and greatest art project was inspired by Rene Magritte and in particular, his most famous painting of a gentlemen with an apple hiding his face.
Students learned a little about Rene Magritte's background and the style of art that he painted: Surrealism. We viewed many examples of his work but were especially draw to this particular painting.
Using it as inspiration, students created self-portraits where they replaced their heads with an item that was important to them or that they highly valued.
We also worked on some very specific painting techniques for this artwork:
1) mixing our our colours instead of using colours our of the bottle
2) using different sized paintbrushes for different parts of the painting
3) attempting to get cleaner lines by using the edge of the brush instead of the tip
Materials used for this project: paper, tempra paint.
Students learned a little about Rene Magritte's background and the style of art that he painted: Surrealism. We viewed many examples of his work but were especially draw to this particular painting.
Using it as inspiration, students created self-portraits where they replaced their heads with an item that was important to them or that they highly valued.
We also worked on some very specific painting techniques for this artwork:
1) mixing our our colours instead of using colours our of the bottle
2) using different sized paintbrushes for different parts of the painting
3) attempting to get cleaner lines by using the edge of the brush instead of the tip
Materials used for this project: paper, tempra paint.
Chinese New Year Scrolls
To celebrate Chinese New Year, we practiced our Mandrian writing by creating scrolls wishing each other New Years good wishes.
Materials used on this project: construction paper, paint
Materials used on this project: construction paper, paint
Cities of Symmetry
Our latest art project has been quite a lot of fun but also full of challenges we had to overcome.
First students learned about symmetry and we focused on reflection symmetry. That's when one side is the mirror image of the other side. Then students built a city out of paper on one side of the paper. Then using water colour paint, they had to paint the symmetrical reflection of their city onto the other side. It might look easy, but it wasn't. Mrs. Vieira made them use their rulers to try and get it as accurate as possible. Then we ran into a problem with the sky. The sky was supposed to be made with oil pastels on one side and chalk pastels on the other to give it "watered down" appearance but the chalk pastels didn't work on the paper Mrs. Vieira had chosen. Thankfully a solution was found with a little experimentation and Mrs. Vieira discovered that is she used a scraper to scrape a layer of oil pastel off, it created a similar effect to what the original goal was. That was actually our second obstacle. Our first obstacle was discovering some critters in our classroom found the paper for our artwork to be delicious and decided to help themselves to nibbling away at them. We still haven't figured out who the nibblers are, but we hope their bellies are full and they leave our classroom and projects alone.
Materials used for this project: paper, water colour paint, oil pastels.
First students learned about symmetry and we focused on reflection symmetry. That's when one side is the mirror image of the other side. Then students built a city out of paper on one side of the paper. Then using water colour paint, they had to paint the symmetrical reflection of their city onto the other side. It might look easy, but it wasn't. Mrs. Vieira made them use their rulers to try and get it as accurate as possible. Then we ran into a problem with the sky. The sky was supposed to be made with oil pastels on one side and chalk pastels on the other to give it "watered down" appearance but the chalk pastels didn't work on the paper Mrs. Vieira had chosen. Thankfully a solution was found with a little experimentation and Mrs. Vieira discovered that is she used a scraper to scrape a layer of oil pastel off, it created a similar effect to what the original goal was. That was actually our second obstacle. Our first obstacle was discovering some critters in our classroom found the paper for our artwork to be delicious and decided to help themselves to nibbling away at them. We still haven't figured out who the nibblers are, but we hope their bellies are full and they leave our classroom and projects alone.
Materials used for this project: paper, water colour paint, oil pastels.
Array Robots
We recently began learning about multiplication in Math and one way to solve multiplication questions to to draw an array. Once students had a good understand on how to draw and solve problems using arrays, we decided to have some fun with them. We created robots using arrays of various sizes and did the math to accompany them. They turned out really neat. Materials used were paper, markers, and/or pencil crayons.
Remembrance Day Wreath
All classes created a Remembrance Day wreath to present during our assembly. Our class did two different poppies: one contained words we brainstormed around the words "peace" and "remembrance". The materials we used were markers, pencil crayons, construction paper and glue. The second type of poppies we created used the pointillism technique, where art is created using only dots. The materials we used were paint and our pinkie fingers. We think our wreath turned out wonderfully and we are very proud of it.
Picasso Inspired Witches and Wizards
In this project, students were introduced to Pablo Picasso and many different examples of his work. They learned that Picasso liked to paint people/faces and was well known for being the first cubism artist. Students were then guided through steps for creating their own cubism face but since we were so close to Halloween, we decided to turn out faces into Witches or Wizards. For this project, we used construction paper, glue and markers.
Inspired by The Scream
In this project, the students learned about Edvard Munch and what may have inspired his most famous painting; The Scream. Poor Edvard Munch lived a very sad life and was not a very happy man, which may have led him to creating The Scream. We decided to do our own version of the scream where we were inspired by the swirling, abstract background but used photos of ourselves screaming. For this project, we used oil pastels and photographs. We also wrote a short paragraph about what makes us scream.
Warm Vs. Cool Colours
Our first major art lesson was about warm vs. cool colours. Once we learned about this, we did an art project that played the two types against each other to make a simple shape really stand out. We used water colours on paper for this project.