Patterned Pumpkins - 2nd Grade!

Our 2nd Graders have been working on a still life drawing of pumpkins! We learned about using a lighter color to add a "highlight" to what we're coloring! We also learned about how adding patterns to a drawing can add interest to our artwork!

Picasso Monsters - 1st Grade!

During the first couple weeks of October, our first graders got to make mixed media monster faces after learning about Pablo Picasso and his unusual portraits of people. They really had a lot of fun cutting all of the pieces out and putting them together. This was another great idea from Mrs. Picasso's Art Room! Here's how they turned out:

I think the most fun part for the kids was adding in all the hair, bats, and pumpkins. Some of them even added in caves and the moon! How creative!

Pop Art Experiment - 5th Grade!

Our 5th graders just finished up their first project of the year, Pop Art!!! I felt this was a wonderful starter project for the year because it was a nice introduction to blending colored pencils (which is an essential skill to have for middle school art), it was a nice introduction to digital art, it involved photography (my favorite!!), and it didn't require a bunch of drawing.

Before we started, we looked at a bunch of examples of Andy Warhol's pop art pieces that involved repetition of the same image, but all of them are different in some way.

Then, the students were able to pick 4 copies of 5 pre-selected photographs to work with. They had to follow certain color guidelines for each of the 4 copies:
1) a set of complimentary colors (red/green, purple/yellow, blue/orange)
2) the primary colors (red, yellow, blue)
3) the secondary colors (orange, purple, green)
4) any colors

(Sorry about the glare,  I laminated these to be able to hang in the hallway) :)

When they were finished, I had them glue the edges together to create one big giant piece of art. I think the kiddos thoroughly enjoyed this project!

There's No Place Like Space! - 3rd Grade

So, our 3rd graders are currently learning about the solar system in science and I came across this wonderful project idea from What's Happening in the Art Room? . It was our first experience using my brand-new liquid watercolor paints! The kids loved how all the colors would smudge together and still keep their original hues, it was awesome! Then, they got to splatter paint their space background using white paint in a spray bottle! So much fun! And the cherry on the sundae was getting to put their very own face in the space suit of the astronaut!

Here's the example from WHITAR:

Here's what my students created:

(the blobs over the faces are just to follow our photograph rules, but I assure you, they look great!)

I think the overall favorite part might have been cutting up all of the "space junk" and gluing it on! :)

Official First Post!!

Welcome to my lovely little sparkly art blog!!! Here you will find the projects your kiddos have been working on and find out what we've been learning about in art!!! I look forward to posting about all of the lovely artwork that is created in my class!!! 

Have fun!!!

~Ms. Carney