This week the fourth graders made texture sandwiches and burgers! We talked about implied and actual texture before creating the different parts of a sandwich using all different kinds of art supplies to create each texture. Once everything was cut out and ready we glued it on so that it looked like it was stacked on a plate! They turned out great!
The fourth graders read the book Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss before dreaming up a place that they would one day like to go. We drew places all around the world in crayon and then added watercolor hot air balloons to the top!
The fourth graders painted sunflowers this week! We first spent an entire art day talking about perspective and we practiced drawing sunflowers from front view, side view, down side view, and top view. Then we made the different perspectives into an arrangement and made sure that we were filling up space. Once our practice drawings were done we got out the paint and started! They turned out so nice!
The fourth graders practiced filling up the space again this week! We made Santa so close up that he touched every edge of our page. We first practiced drawing some facial features before drawing our Santa on our page. Then we painted them in with watercolors. Some of them turned out so funny!
The fourth graders and I are on an oil pastel kick these days. Last art time we used our oil pastels to draw pumpkins and talked about blending and shading. This time I showed them different ways to create texture using oil pastels.
We started by looking at pictures of owls and creating lists of some of the colors, shapes, and other things that we saw. We then talked a little bit about emphasis and filling the space before drawing our owls with these ideas in mind. Then we added our oil pastels while trying out the new techniques we learned. The fourth graders and I tried out our hands at shading this week! We used all different colors of oil pastels to create what I call "Rainbow Pumpkins" before blending all of the colors together with our orange. Our goal was to draw the most realistic pumpkins that we could (no pumpkins in jail!) and then make it look like it was round and each section was round too. We added darker colors on one side of the pumpkin and on either side of each section, and lighter colors to the top of our pumpkins and the middle of each section. They did such a great job following along and I am so impressed with how they turned out!
I never want take down our Dia de los Muertos display! I love it so much! The papel picados that the third graders made turned out so neat and look amazing hanging from the ceiling. Each grade level completed a different project for the holiday, the fourth graders cut out paper shapes to create calaveras, the first graders drew and decorated calaveras on paper plates, the second graders created marigolds, and the third graders made the papel picados. We got all of it done right on time for yesterday and today! Happy El Dia de los Muertos!
For the fourth graders El Dia de los Muertos project, we created calaveras using cut paper collages. We first drew and cut out the shapes for the skeletons and then they had two art days to add any patterns, clothing, hair, etc by cutting out shapes from paper OR by drawing with crayons.
I love all of the little personalities that show through on each one. A few students even made theirs in honor of someone that they knew that passed away, like they learned about the holiday. It was so sweet and special when they shared that with me, I near teared up every time. I love it when they put so much thought and love into their art work! For the fourth graders first art project of the year we created out very own castles so that we could be the rulers of our very own kingdom. I modeled how to draw different parts of a castle and allowed the students to either follow along with my castle entirely or improvise as they wished. We then talked about painting with watercolors and I set them off to work! I just love how different every castle turned out. No two castles were exactly the same and each of their little personalities shown through. They turned out great!
For our final project together in the elementary school classroom (before they all join me over at the middle school!) the fourth graders and I worked together to create self portraits inspired by pirates! We brainstormed different things that a pirate might be wearing and then talked about how to draw our faces in the correct proportions. We drew in pencil first, traced our lines in sharpies, and then colored them in with crayons and watercolors. They turned out pretty cute!
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The artwork of the HES & HMS artists.
Art Projects by GradeArchives
December 2015
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