Mouse Paint!

I have to admit I found this point on another art education blog but totally fell in love with this lesson! I have been doing Mouse Paint for years to introduce coloring mixing but really liked how this teacher incorporated two author/illustrators.

After reading both stories, student doing a coloring mixing worksheet they can use during their painting portion of their lesson.

Let the coloring mixing begin!

Chihuly Inspired Community Project

This year during Hosmer's Art and Music Extravaganza week we are taking our "green" initiative to a new level. Inspired by the glasswork of Artist Dale Chihuly, students are using disgarded plasitic water bottles and turing them into beautiful gardens of flowers. These gardens are on large sheets of plexiglass to be hung in the windows of our connector hallway. Together there will be 14 panels that measure 2'x3'. Here is a peek at the process...will post final project when finished.

Final Project pics...

 

Fall Tree Silouettes

As we warmed up to watercolors in the beginning of the year, we do a quick "wet on wet" watercolor technique sky and talking about different times of day. Then students use what they know about line and shape to create a silouette compostion. This year it was trees, during our fall color unit.

 

 

Warm and Cool Leaves

All elementary art teachers seem to have some sort of "fall leaf project". In this project, students not only studied organic shapes and texture, but also warm verses cool colors.

 

 

Jim Dine, Hearts

This project started as a study of color mixing and making painted paper for our Eric Carle unit. But with Valentine's day right around the corner and soooo many beautiful painted papers we looked at the painted hearts by Jim Dine and then created our own. The results were gorgous and

each one unique!

 

 

Kinder's Funny Face Pumpkins

It is that time of year where pumpkins are everywhere! What a better way to introduce a little color mixing (red + yellow=orange) and cutting and gluing skills in Kindergarden.

Kandisnky's Abstract Squares

4th and 5th Graders started thier unit on Abstract Art by studying the father of abstract art, Wassily Kandinsky. In addtion they had a color family review by having  to have one square primary, one secondary, one warm and one cool. They used oil pastels and water color as thier media.



Winter Blues

It's winter and its cold. This lesson helps students understand that colors can have feeling. We talked about the warm and cool colors and how they made us feel. Students then learned about monocromatic (meaning one) color. Using this knowledge, students created a multimedia collage with different tints and shades of blue.

Mondrain's Composition

First graders got their first look at Mondrain's Composition paintings when studying the art element of line. They then created their own using horizontal and vertical lines to create "windows" for their primary colors.