2nd grade Line and Shape Cactus

 

For the past couple of art visits, 2nd grade has been working on the elements of art, line, shape, and a little form, by creating these cacti!

Here's how we made them! 

Kindergarten Line Painting Monsters

This week, kindergarten continued their exploration of line, and started these fun line paintings! We used a new medium, to them, oil pastels and tempera cakes. 😄 Here's how we did it!

1st grade Laurel Burch Line Cats

Last week, 1st grade started on some super cute kitty cats! These little kitties are inspired by the art of Laurel Burch and the fabulous art teacher at Marshall Elementary! 

Here's Laurel Burch in front of her fabulous cat paintings. She painted all kinds of animals, and her art has been featured on items all over the world! 

Can you tell now, where we're getting our inspiration from? 

Here's how we created our own!

Kindergarten Line Sculptures take II!

This week, kindergarten is learning about lines, and creating a line sculpture! I like to do this lesson each year with these little ones, because it's so fun and they learn a lot! We not only learn about lines and sculptures, but other important things to like how to use a glue stick, fold paper, and follow directions! I originally saw this lesson on the awesome Cassie Stephen's website! Her video tutorial shows you exactly how to do it!
Cassie Stephens Line Sculpture video

Here's the link to my first post about this project!

Kindergarten Line Sculpture

Here's some examples from this year's Kindergartners!

Kindergarten Line Sculptures

This week, Kindergarten is learning about lines, and they're creating their very own line sculpture! I love how well they are listening, how hard they are working, and how unique each little sculpture is! We got our inspiration from, a super fun art teacher in Nashville, Cassie Stephens. Click on her name, and you'll be transported to her UH-MAZING blog.

This project was done in one 45 minute class, so the students were able to take their art home today! I had the strips already cut out, demonstrated how to glue them down on my document camera, and then let them take the reins! I think they did a wonderful job! Here are a few of their finished examples. Great job Kindergarten!!

Kindergarten & 1st grade Owls

Today, due to an early release schedule, specials are only 30 minutes long. So, Mrs. Stacey did a directed drawing (teaching how to draw something step-by-step on the screen) with Kindergarten and 1st. They didn't have time to color, but they did such a WONDERFUL job!! Mrs. Stacey is so proud of these awesome little artists! Here are some fabulous examples!

3rd Grade Dot Paintings!

Last week, 3rd grade celebrated National Dot Day, by creating their own dot paintings! The Dot, is a book written by Peter Reynolds, and is about a young girl who's frustrated in art class, and says she can't draw. Her teacher says, "Make a dot, and see where it takes you." The student does, and realizes that she is capable of making great art, all she had to do was try! Here's how we create our own!

5th Grade Dots!

Last week, 5th Grade started their Foil Pattern Dots, inspired by the book, The Dot!  September 15th was National Dot Day, and we celebrated by making these fun, foil "dots" inspired yet again by the fabulous Cassie Stephens! The main tag line of The Dot is, "Make a mark and see where it takes you." Sometimes that can be a hard thing to do, but if you never try, you'll never know what you're capable of! 

Here's how we created ours!

2nd grade Line Paintings Inspired by The Dot

2nd Grade is working on their line circles, that were inspired by the book, The Dot, by Peter Reynolds. September 15th was National Dot day, so we celebrated it by creating these wonderful works of art! 
Here's how we created these works of art!