So far in 2014

Once we finished our depth collages I wanted to have a few fast lessons before beginning our next big project.

At the end of January we drew SPACE WORMS!   These look three dimensional because of the directions we drew the lines.

Wyatt and Kali are working on coloring their worms.

We also did EXQUISITE CORPSES again.  An exquisite corpse is an art game, one person draws the top half and another person draws the bottom half.

Here's Maya finishing her exquisite corpse.

For the next few weeks we'll be making things with CLAY I haven't taken very many pictures yet, but there will be plenty, I'm sure.

What's been happening in the Millville art room?

You may be wondering why I haven't updated the blog this school year at all.  Well the answer is I haven't had the time to update it because I went back to school!  Today I'm posting a few photos from projects we've done this year.  As soon as I have some spare time I'll make regular posts about each one of the projects we've done this year.  Thanks for your patience!

We started the year with SELFIES. We did collages of ourselves with construction paper, all of these will hang in the art room until the end of the year.

Next, we did a unit on COLOR.  We started by filling out color wheels.

First and second grade did color wheels with 6 colors.  These are second graders Josh and Dylan.

3rd, 4th and 5th grade did color wheels with 12 colors.  These are 4th graders Sabrina, Katie and Ty.

After we filled out color wheels we did color projects with oil pastels and watercolor.

1st and 2nd grades did rainbow birds.  This was painted by Samantha in 2nd grade.

The older kids did warm colored chameleons, with cool colored backgrounds.
This was also painted by a student named Samantha, who's in 3rd grade. 

Once we finished learning about color, we moved on to TEXTURE AND PATTERN 

After learning about pattern we did zentangles!

Azi drawing patterns!

Charlie is rubbing the texture of tree bark onto her paper.

After learning about texture we drew monsters.
Eric's monster has a furry texture.

We also made INK-BLOT CREATURES!  If you want to know more about this process you can visit The Daily Monster.

Aubrey made her ink-blot into the wing of a bird.

In December we had a whole unit in which we learned about how artist convey depth in their work.  

We created DEPTH COLLAGES with paper we painted.

1st and 2nd grades did underwater scenes.

3rd, 4th and 5th grades did landscapes.

Sidewalk Chalk

Mrs. Purser/ Mrs. Miner's Class

Talya, Mr. Allen's class, and Kali

 

Materials:

-sidewalk chalk

Sidewalk Chalk Overview: For this lesson I didn’t just let the students draw whatever they wanted, whenever I do that most of the class scribbles and gives up quickly.  Instead of that I had the kids trace one another’s outlines and fill them in with whatever they want to be when they grow up, impossible things like mermaids, santa clauses and princesses are allowed.

1- Each student gets 2 pieces of chalk, sharing is strongly encouraged.

2- Partner up and trace each other’s outlines onto the sidewalk.  

3- Fill your outline in.
4- If you have extra time the students can draw whatever they want. 

Taryn, Ashley, Samantha, Azi, Leah, Mrs. Cook's class, Mrs. Broadbent's class, Ryan and Sam

Titan, Brynlee, Coltan, RJ, Danner, Elle, and Danny

Maya, Ian, Noah, Kamree, Josh, and Macy

 

Monsters

Materials:

- big white sheets of construction paper

- watercolors

- paintbrushes

- pencils

- sharpies

- crayons

 

Monsters Overview:  These Monsters only have two requirements: a texture or a pattern, and a background.  We drew them in crayon first and then painted over the crayon with watercolor.  Remind the students that their monsters can look like anything they want, it can have no eyes or fifty eyes, it’s all up to them.

Karli, Bradley, Addy, Jayda, Brittany, Charly and Levi, Tristen, Sami, Dillan, Nadia, and Brandon

1- Sketch your monster lightly with a pencil.  Younger students can skip to step 2.

2- Draw over your sketch with sharpies and crayons.  Don’t forget to add a pattern or a texture!

3- Paint it with watercolor.

4- Put it on the drying rack, you’re done!
 

Harry, April, Parker and Taylee

Maya, Parker, Brynli, Harrison, Brynn

Spencer, Jessica, Dax, Karli, and Stockton

Exquisite Corpse

Karina, Zach, Lilly and Elizabeth

Materials:

- crayons

- white paper

Exquisite Corpse Overview:  An exquisite corpse is an art game where one person draws a part of an image and another person draws the other part.  (It can also be played with words to write a story.)  The way we played is the first person draws the top half of a creature and the second person draws the bottom half.  The students can draw just about any kind of creature; animals, people, monsters or aliens are all fine.  This lesson was a filler lesson, so only a few classes did this.

Ben, Hadley, Wyatt, Carlee, Josh, Alexis, Samantha, Emily, Carlee and Danee

1- Fold your paper in half hamburger style.

2- Draw 2 lines that cross the crease in the middle, when the lines are drawn correctly you can see them on both the top half and the bottom half of the paper even when it is folded in half. These lines are where the sides of the torso will be, so the two halves of your body line up nicely.

3- Write the word “top” on the top of the paper and “bottom” on the bottom or the paper.  Write your name in the top corner of the page.

4- Draw the top half of any creature on the top half of the page.  KEEP THE PAPER FOLDED IN HALF WHILE YOU DO THIS or at least a few students will forget that they’re only drawing half of a creature.  They should include both arms, the top of the torso and the head.  The body should be drawn as if it is growing out from between the two lines.

5- Collect the papers and shuffle them.

6- Pass the papers randomly around the room.  Students cannot peek at the top half.  If a students gets their paper back give them a different one.  

7- Now we draw the bottom half!  Including the bottom of the torso, and the legs.  
8- Once the students are finished drawing, have them find the person who drew the top half and give it back to them, whoever drew the top gets to keep the paper.
 

Azi, Braxton, Colton, Shelby, Jordyn, and Kiari

Jonny, Kennedy, Camree, Kylee, Ronan, Mikele, Mckenzie, Stratford, Carter, Trey, Nate, and Karina

Model Magic Polar Bears

Materials:

- one small package of white model magic for each student

-permanent markers

Chelsey, Alyvia, Danny, Allie, Leah and Strat

Polar Bears Overview:  Not all classes got to make these polar bears.  Only the classes that earned it by getting 80 points in my star reward system.  Here’s how my star sysem works: each class can earn up to 5 behavioral points, or stars, in a week.  When a class gets to 80 stars they get to make model magic polar bears.  This year only about half the classes in the school earned 80 stars.

Kylee, Porter, Karina, Zach and Lilly

1- Roll your whole clump of model magic into a ball.

2- Split your ball into two equal parts. Set one aside until step 4.

3- Spit one of the balls into two unequal parts, one should be about one third the size of the other.  Roll these two parts into balls.  One will become the head and the other will be the body.

4- Take the biggest ball, the one we did not split apart in the last step, and pinch a small piece off.  This should be about one fourth the size of the head, it will become the nose.

5- Take the ball that will become the head and connect the nose ball to it, then pinch two small round ear shapes into the top. Your head is done for now, you’ll draw the eyes and mouth on with a marker later.

6- Take the medium ball, or the body piece, and roll it into an elongated sphere, like a big pill.

7- Connect the head to the body shape.

8- Now we’re going to make 4 legs out of the large ball that is left over.  First, split it in half.  Second, take those halves and  split them both in half.  You should have four equal parts, roll them into balls.

9- Roll these balls into long pill shapes for the short legs of the bear.

10- Attach the legs to the bear’s body in whatever pose you want your bear to be in.

11- Once your bear is all put together, pinch a short tail shape out of the bottom.

12- Draw the face and the paws onto your bear with permanent markers.  

12- Write your initials on the bottom and put your bear onto the shelf where we’ll have it sit for a week while it drys out

Jonny, Ashley and Eliza

Alyvia, Caleb, Travvon, Braden, Katie, and Talya

Made by: Mrs. Tanner's 4th grade class

Mandalas

Carson

Chloee

Materials:

-markers

-copies of mandala designs

Mandalas Overview: Since the last lesson, the paint chip bears, were pretty difficult and many classes were not quite done with their bears we needed an easy filler lesson.  I found these mandala coloring pages online.

1-  Pass out the mandala patterns and color them in!

Mrs. Larson's class