Artistic Freedom

  A students view of Van Gogh's Sunflowers. Students looked at the colors Van Gogh used and added those same colors on their drawn flowers. 1st Graders working on their flowers… Class 5 (last day) On the first day of the project, I introduced the students to Vincent Van Gogh and his sunflower paintings. We looked at the painting shown above, and drew the flowers with pencil on black paper as a class. I made three different sized circle tracers for each student to use to help with proportions. The students drew a horizon line to start. We placed the vase bottom below the horizon line and then placed each flower on the paper… one circle at a time. The next class we talked about color. We counted the colors used in just the vase. The students started on the vase, and used every color that they saw on the painting. We did the same thing the next class with the pedals and flower centers. The students loved working with the oil pastels. I think...

Year two of the Blue Period guitars, based off of Picasso's Blue period. The project teaches collage, layers, and lots of experience gluing and cutting. Love the new guitars! For more explanation… Check out the guitars from two years ago on my archive. 

WAUPACA LIBRARY ART SHOW PREVIEW 5TH GRADE CONTINUOUS LINE PORTRAITS EMPHASIS AND OVERLAPPING STILL-LIFE  GROUP PROJECT- BIKE STUDY 2 POINT PERSPECTIVE  LICHTENSTEIN HAND STUDY 4TH GRADE VEG. AND FRUIT MOSAIC FAUVIST PORTRAITS  TOOTHBRUSH STILL-LIFE  3RD GRADE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SHAPE CUTOUT   TEXTURE STUDY WITH METAL TOOLING OVERLAY  2ND GRADE  ERIC CARLE BEAR ERIC CARLE SHEEP GIRAFFE WITH CROSS-CURRICULAR LITERATURE UNIT     PIET MONDRIAN SQUARES WITH CIRCLE FRAMES 1ST GRADE TISSUE PAPER -COLOR MIXING STUDY  SQUID WEAVINGS LANDSCAPE- WARM AND COOL COLORS KINDERGARTEN  TISSUE PAPER PUMPKIN WITH LINE STUDY ERIC CARLE CARDINALS WITH BIRCH TREE MITTEN- PATTERNS AND OVERLAPPING   A COLOR OF HIS OWN - CHAMELEON WEAVING  ...