Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes

Yummy, Yummy Cakes!

4th Graders studied the artist Wayne Thiebaud. They then made a cake of thier own using oil pastels as thier medium. They were told to layer HEAVILY to get the painterly effect, mix colors and

be creative! Students were also introduced to shading cyclindars to make thier cakes look round. Don't the look good enough to eat?!

 

 

Nutcracker

Since it is Nutcracker season, the music teacher and I decided to put together a unit on ballet and storytelling. Here are the beginnings of our nutcracker drawings in class.
To make the nutcracker figure, student had to trace a 4"x6" rectangle for the body, and then 1"x4" rectangle for the arms and legs and then 2" square for the head and then again for the hat.
After the tracing they then had visuals of different nutcrackers they could copy or design their own. Marker was the best media for this because of its easy for coloring and its brightness.

 

My Family

In the beginning of the year, I ask our Kindergarteners to drawing a picture of thier family or who they live with as we have a very diverse student body. We then talk about where we live or a favorite activity we do with our family. After our art talk, we then start with a perment marker drawing which we then turn into a wax-resist painting. It's always a good first lesson to undertanding where my students come from on so many levels.

Blind Contour Drawing

To start a unit on observation drawing, students started with a warm up activity of doing blind contours of thier friends. They really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun. The best part was watching me do it and how off my my blind contour was. It got a good laugh but it was a good lesson in how blind contours are really blind and aren't suppose to be perfect!