Sweet Treats & Bold Colors: Wayne Thiebaud-Inspired Ice Cream Art

This week in our elementary art room, we dove into the colorful world of Wayne Thiebaud, an American artist known for his whimsical, dessert-themed paintings full of rich color, bold shadows, and delicious detail. Our young artists created their own vibrant ice cream cone drawings using oil pastels on black construction paper, and the results are as sweet as the inspiration!

This lesson came from the fabulous art teacher Joel Scholten! You can download his ice cream templates here!  

Mother's Day Picasso Inspired Bouquets

It's finally warm and sunny, and we're finally done with testing!! HOOORAAAYY!! We have the beautiful outdoors, Spring/Summer, and Mother's Day on our minds right now! Why not mix a little Picasso in there too? You could do this with any grade, but I chose to try it with 3rd grade this week. It only took one 45 minute class!

Here's how we created our own.

Kindergarten Mother's Day Spring Bouquets

Before Spring break, I saw the cutest image on Art with Mrs. H's Instagram, and I wanted to try it out with our Kindergartners! I emailed one of the kindergarten teachers at our school, and asked how can we make this happen, and she said she would help me out!! Mrs. Campbell arranged a volunteer to come to school and help stamp the hand prints of ALL our sweet lil kinder kids! That is a task, let me tell you! They did a great job stamping their little hand, so the next part was up to me! 

Here's how we created ours! 

3rd grade Spring Flowers

Last week 3rd grade started this fun, colorful Spring work of art! I've been cruising around the internet for new ideas, and came across this one from The ARtcart, and thought that would be a fun way to practice our drawing, painting, cutting, coloring, and composition skills, all in one project! 

Here's how we created our own!

Kindergarten Catherine Rayner inspired Bunnies

This week, Kindergarten started their Catherine Rayner inspired bunny! We did a directed drawing and then the students practiced their watercolor skills to fill in their beautiful little bunnies with color!

Catherine Rayner is an author and illustrator, and writes the cutest children's books!

Here's a link to her website, where you can check out her books and see her very lovely illustrations.

Here's her painting. I just love it!

This project just took the kindergartners one 45 minute class to complete. First, I introduced them to Ms. Rayner, her art, and talked about where she is from. Then, we read the book she wrote titled, Harris Finds His Feet. 

Kindergarten Spring Flowers

I don't know about y'all, but here we are so over snow (we're out of snow days!) and already thinking about spring! So, we're breaking out of our snowy scenes and moving on to bright and pretty things! Here's how we're going to make our vases of flowers, inspired by the fabulous teacher Abby Shukei. You can visit her art blog here!

Lunar New Year Kites

Starting February 16th, people all over the world will be celebrating Chinese New Year. This is a very interesting holiday to learn about, and is full of fun traditions that you will love reading about! Here's a fun link to all kinds of info on the Chinese Spring Festival. 

Chinese New Year 2020