Frida Kahlo Inspired Portraits

Students learned about portraits and discussed work by famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Students created Self-Portraits using symbols that were unique to them and then wrote what their symbols mean.

Los estudiantes aprendieron sobre los retratos y hablaron sobre las obras de la famosa artista Mexicana Frida Kahlo. Los estudiantes crearon auto-retratos  usando símbolos que fueran individuales para ellos y luego escribieron lo que significa cada símbolo.

 

Bubble wrap prints

First Grade students used bubble wrap to print. They painted bubble wrap with blue tempera paint and then printed it on blue paper to create the look of water. Then they created fish and glued them onto their printed paper. 

Still Life Paintings

Fourth grade students used their observational drawing skills to draw and paint a still life.

 

 

Pointillism Butterflies

Students discovered that the comics in newspapers are colored with tiny dots. They also learned about Georges Seurat, the artist who invented pointillism by using only dots in his paintings. They applied their discoveries in creating a butterfly colored only with dots.The students also made sure their butterflies showed symmetry.

Los estudiantes descubrieron que las historietas en los periódicos están pintadas con puntitos diminutos. También aprendieron sobre Georges Seurat, el artista que invento el puntillismo usando solamente puntitos en sus obras. Ellos aplicaron su descubrimiento para crear mariposas pintadas solamente con puntos. Los estudiantes también tenían que asegurar que las alas fueran simétricas.

Paper Mache Bowls

Fifth Grade students explored form and 3-dimensional art by creating bowls with paper mache. They colored their bowls with either warm or cool colored tissue paper, and painted the bottom of their bowls with tempera paints.

 

 

 

 

Weaving

Fifth grade students created these weavings on cardboard looms. They strung on the warp strings, and then used both tabby weave and checkerboard weave techniques to create their weavings. Some students even embellished their weavings with beads.

 

Romare Bearden Inspired Artwork

Third Grade students looked at artwork by Romare Bearden. They discovered that he created collages from cut up photos, paintings and other papers. He included people and places that were important to him. They found that he loved music and grew up during the Harlem Renaissance, so instruments are often featured in his artwork. Third graders picked an instrument of their choice, and drew just a portion of it, emphasizing a part of the instrument that they found interesting. They colored their instrument with oil pastels and created a piano border with marker. 

 

 

Surrealist Inspired Paintings

Fifth graders studied the art of the surrealists, especially Salvador Dali. Students watched a video clip  called "Get Surreal! With Salvador Dali" to help them understand surrealism. Students used surrealist methods to come up with subject matter to create surrealist artwork. Four methods they could use are transformation, dislocation, metamorphosis and juxtaposition.

Cave Art

First grade students learned about some of the first artwork ever made; cave paintings! When students came to art, the room had transformed into a cave. The tables were turned on their sides, with brown paper taped to them. Then students took a virtual tour of the cave at Lascaux, looked at photos of the cave paintings, and read the book, "The Cave Painter of Lascaux" by Roberta Angeletti.  Students drew their own versions of the cave paintings and then crumpled their brown papers to make their paper look like the cave wall.

 

Rotational Printmaking

Third Grade students created rotational prints by carving a design into a piece of styrofoam. This is the printing block. Then they used a brayer (roller) to roll ink onto the printing block. Then they printed their block four times, rotating it around the center of the paper.

 

Cropped Animal Drawings

2nd Grade students used viewfinders to zoom in closely to a photograph of an animal. They saw a demonstration of using photo-editing software to see how to crop a photo. They learned that sometimes artists crop a photo or artwork to show emphasis (or what the artist thinks is the most important part of the artwork).

Students cropped a photo of the animal of their choice and then drew what was in the viewfinder very large. Then they wrote clues to help people guess what animal they zoomed in on. 

Los estudiantes de segundo grado usaron visores para enfocar de cerca una fotografía de un animal. Ellos vieron una demostración del uso de un programa para editar fotografías digitales y vieron como recortar una foto. Aprendieron que algunas veces los artistas recortan una fotografía o una obra de arte para hacer énfasis (o lo que el artista piense que es la parte más importante de la obra de arte).

Los estudiantes recortaron una foto del animal que escogieron y luego dibujaron lo que estaba en el visor, pero muy grande. Luego escribieron pistas para ayudar a las personas a adivinar cual animal enfocaron de cerca. 

Needle Felting

Fourth graders were introduced to needle felting. They learned about the materials used and where they come from, as well as the basics of needle felting. Here are some of their creations.