Chris Uphues & Jen Stark inspired Valentine’s Art!

Today, 4th grade learned about the artists Chris Uphues and Jen Stark! We looked at examples of their art, and got to work on our own! This project came from The Busy Brushes, and came in handy for Valentine’s Day! 

Jim Dine Inspired Tissue Paper Hearts

 Soon, 3rd grade will start this fun and colorful project inspired by the artist Jim Dine, and the amazing elementary art LauraLee Chambers. (Btw, You can find her on instagram at 2art.chambers)

Here’s the materials you need

90lb paper

Bleeding tissue paper

Paintbrushes 

Paint sticks

Oil pastels

Day 1: We’ll look at images of Jim Dine’s art, and create our tissue paper background. 

Day 2: We’ll make the heart by fold some scrap paper, tracing it onto the background, and coloring it with paint sticks and pastels!

Here’s the full video tutorial on YouTube! 

How to draw 3-D looking boxes with a surprise inside!

 

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Sorry, I'm late in posting this lesson, but we had a very unexpected "snow week" last week, right after Valentine's Day. My little boy was born 4 years ago, on that day, so we spent the day celebrating him! Here's how we celebrated at school! After we made our Chris Uphues 3-5th mural, we went on to try Tabitha Seaton's box with hearts lesson! 4th and 5th did a great job drawing their boxes with me, because of her neat instructions on how to do so. I made a video for my 3rd grade virtual students showing them how to make it as well. You can watch that below! 

For this project we used:

Tru-Ray construction paper

Sax 90lb paper

Pencils

black Sharpie markers

Scissors & Glue sticks

Chris Uphues Valentine's Hearts!

For the first time since I've been here, our school is going to do a Valentine's Day dance, and PTO approached me about the students making some decorations! 3rd grade kicked us off with some Chris Uphues inspired hearts! I was introduced to this artist by my favorite art teacher, Cassie Stephens. Click on her name and it'll take you to her blog, and show you all about Mr. Uphues, his art, and their projects! Here's how we made our own!

Kindergarten Radiating Design Hearts

Kindergarten completed their exploding hearts this week, so it's time to create something new! I thought it'd be fun for them to learn how to cut out a heart, and use patterns, lines, and paint to create a work of art around their heart!

1st grade Love Monsters

Love these "Love Monsters" I've been seeing on Instagram! Thanks @artolazzi , @mrsplouffsartclass and Painted Paper Art for the inspiration! This project was originally inspired by the book Love Monster. 

Here's how we will be creating our own!

Kindergarten Exploding Hearts

Today,  Kindergarten is finishing up their lil snowy owls, and we had a little extra time to start another project before class was over. So I decided we could make these heart chalk rubbings.
Here's how we created them!

1st grade Valentine pups

1st Grade Valentine's Day puppies!

Here are some precious pups inspired by Mrs. Cassie Stephens' students!

We used poster board strips folded into a heart shape, to stamp or print hearts, then they drew out their dogs with Mrs. Stacey, and glued them to their printed background. 

Here are some students who finished their adorable art!