We did our versions in waxed crayons:
Category: Class News
St. Patrick’s Rainbow 🌈 Wishes
Students wrote out six ‘wishes’ they would ask a leprechaun ☘️
These were transferred onto the coloured strips and attached to their ‘clouds’.
A few wee folk showed up on the bulletin board across the hall from the rainbows.
Happy Patrick’s Day ☘️🌈☘️
Picasso Abstract Faces
We looked at some art pieces by Pablo Picasso and read a story book about a period of his life called, “Pablo Picasso and the Girl With the Ponytail”, by Laurence Anholt.
We then created our own ‘abstract’ faces on tag board, initially with pencil and then traced with black Sharpie. We worked through the sections together as a series of directed drawing lessons. We incorporated eyes, eyebrows, noses, mouths, cheeks, necks, jawlines, hair, and head dresses. Felt markers were used for the parts that we wanted to be emphasized (for the ‘pop’). Background areas were shaded in using pencil crayons or waxed crayons.
Here are the finished pieces which are posted on the bulletin board in our classroom:
The move to the library …
We are working out of the library while our classroom is being painted.
Yes, I know the date is wrong … I noticed it after I had taken the photos and gone home 🙄😂
With a bit of luck we will be returning to our classroom by Wednesday or Thursday next week. We will definitely be appreciating being back ‘home’ 😊
100’s Day!!
We had fun doing ‘hundreds’ of things this week.
Our Snow Families
We have completed our long and detailed art project. It was many steps over several days. First we painted blue backgrounds. Then we added tissue paper and glitter snow along the bottom. Painted balls were then placed to represent the members of our immediate families. Foam board was used for the accessories of hats and scarves. Permanent markers for small details – eyes, arms – were used. At the end we added more tissue paper snow to the bottom and placed snowflakes in the sky. Our family names were mounted on foam board and attached. They look great!
Division 7 is “Just Hanging Around …”
The ‘inspiration’ …
We did a directed drawing lesson. Students then traced their pencil lines with black pencil crayon. We had a shading / colouring lesson … students used mostly waxed crayons, with some pencil crayon additions.
The whole ‘colony’ together …
Going Batty 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
We did a directed drawing lesson on a bat in flight. The students then reproduced their bats onto their construction paper. We had a lesson on outlining, shading, and highlighting areas to show texture (the bat’s fur). Students completed their work with waxed crayons. They added in items that would be seen in the Autumn.
Primary Colours Create Secondary Colours
Students were given paint palettes with three colours of paint – red, blue, and yellow. The instructions were to paint any picture they wanted but they needed to show six colours – both primary and secondary colours. To be fair, they mostly made ‘intermediate’ colours as the colours they created were most likely not of equal amounts of primary colours. Most students managed to make secondary colours (orange, green, and violet). Some people discovered what happens when they mix too many colours – they get brown.
Every Artist is Unique …
We looked at a variety of prints of famous painters’ works.
Camille Pissarro
August Renoir
Paul Cezanne
Claude Monet
Vincent Van Gogh
Henri Matisse
Pablo Picasso
We discussed how the paintings are different and how they are the same. It was noticed, by the children, that while they all have at least one tree in their painting, they are all different versions, techniques, and styles of trees. Students then used waxed and pencil crayons to create their own ‘unique’ pictures. They all needed to include at least one tree … everything else was up to them. Here are the marvellous results:
