5th grade Jim Dine inspired paintbrushes

A couple of art classes ago, 5th grade started their Jim Dine and Lauralee Chambers inspired paintbrushes! They covered many art practices with this project, and I'm very proud of their results! 

Here's how we created them! 

1st & 2nd Grade Self Portraits

At the beginning of each year, I like to do self portraits with the kids to see how much they remember from last year, how much they know if they're new, and see how much they've improved since the last time we created them. They're just so cute too! 

We start out by doing a "before" that they do without any instruction or reminders. Then, we do an "after" with me! We do kind of a directed drawing, where I go over what shapes to use, and where to put the features and hair. 

After that, we trace them with Sharpie markers, and color them in. 

Here are some 1st and 2nd graders hard at work!

5th grade One Point Perspective Landscapes

5th grade 

One Point Perspective Landscapes

For the past few weeks, 5th grade has been working on their one point perspective drawings.They have taken us quite a while, but they're turning out quite nicely! Before I started teaching the lesson, I gave them a piece of paper that asked about one point perspective, and then asked them to draw a picture of a road. Here's a few of their drawings before instruction. 

  

For this project, we go through the steps (which there are a lot of) together. 

We start with the horizon line, draw the vanishing point, create the road, and then the guide lines going to our vanishing point. (all together, with ruler and a pencil) I tell them they need to do trees on the left of their paper, but they can do something different on the right side of their paper. They can choose what type of tree, or cactus, they want to do and we draw them together. They can also choose what type of environment they want to do as well. Beach, desert, country, city, etc.

The next class, we focus on what they will put on the right side. I have how to draw building packets, how to draw fence packets, and I go over how to draw both on my document camera. I also demonstrate how to draw water at a distance. So many want to draw their water from a bird's eye view! There's so  much you can do with this type project, but I wanted to keep it simple so I wouldn't overwhelm my 5th graders! We draw with pencil, trace with Sharpie markers, and color with Crayola Twistables.

Here are their papers, after instruction. They showed tremendous improvement, and did a marvelous job! 

Katherine

Betzy

Penelope

Bonny

Miles

Anthony

Jayla

Lucia

SueAnn