O'Keefe Inspired Insect

Third Grade students looked at artwork by Georgia O'Keefe and read various books about her life. In one book, "My Name is Georgia" by Jeanette Winter, students discovered that Georgia O'Keefe created large artworks of small things like flowers, partly because she wanted people to see things the way she saw them. Students then drew and colored another small thing; insects. Students looked carefully at a picture of an insect of their choice and tried to capture as many details as they could. They colored their butterflies with chalk pastel. 

 

 

Northern Lights

Fourth Grade students discussed the phenomenon of the Northern Lights, and watched a time-lapse video showing the Northern lights. We read the book, "Once Upon a Northern Night" by Jean Pendziwol, and then created our own Northern Lights with cut paper and chalk pastel.

Dessert Prints

Second Grade students discussed the difference between printing and painting. They learned that prints can be made multiple times. Students designed their own printing block featuring dessert, after studying Wayne Thiebaud, an artist who is known for his dessert paintings.  They drew their dessert on a piece of styrofoam and then colored it with markers. Students then printed those desserts by spraying a piece of paper with water and blotting the paper with paper towel. Then they printed their dessert on that paper. Students were able to make multiple prints.