Bare bones drawing

Third grade students have been learning about contour and continuous line drawing.

Students have been using “George”, our classroom skeleton, as a model.

These drawing exercises have been forcing the students to explore a new method of drawing.

Everyone has learned new skills in this new method of drawing.

It’s exciting to see students’ drawing skills improve through this process.

The line in a continuous line drawing is unbroken from the beginning to the end. The drawing tool stays in constant contact with the surface of the paper during the entire length of the drawing process.

It has been great fun to see the third graders’ confidence grow in their drawing abilities as the school year progresses.

 

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Shoe drawing

Third grade students are learning to draw using continuous and contour lines.

This method is teaching students to focus on what they are drawing.

The difficult part of learning this method is to not draw what you think something looks like but to look and draw the outline of the object being drawn.

This is a difficult skill to learn, but the students are doing a great job.

Everyone is pushing themselves to learn new ways of seeing that will develop their drawing skills.

Skeleton drawing

Third grade students have been using their new knowledge of contour line and continuous line drawing to create skeleton drawings.

Students have been viewing my full size skeleton named “George” and drawing him.

Everyone has been focusing on the skeleton and trying not to look at their paper as they draw.

The goal of this drawing session was for students to have their pencil move with their eyes while looking at the skeleton’s contour.

This required the third graders to focus and concentrate on their subject.

Students created wonderful drawings for their first attempt at drawing such a large model.

Students worked hard learning and applying new skills to their drawings.

Here are some examples of the students’ work.

Photo shoot

Fifth graders have been exploring digital photography.

Students have been learning how to compose a photograph.

They’ve learned how to take a portrait both indoors and outdoors.

Everyone have been learning how to use the many features of a digital camera.

The fifth graders are enjoying working in pairs as they learn this new technology in art.

Students are exploring the many uses of this new medium in art.

Students have been given a wide variety of photographic assignments as they work to capture many different types of images digitally.

Pointillistic trees

Kindergarten and first grade students have explored the art movement of pointillism.

Students used tempera paint and cotton swabs to create dots of color on their tree paintings.

Pointillism is a post-impressionist school of painting exemplified by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th-century France, characterized by the application of paint in small dots and brush strokes.

Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.

The term “Pointillism” was first coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.

Students used a variety of green hues along with yellow and red to create the color on their tree paintings.

After completing their trees, students spent the next week using the same technique on the background.

Students added many hues of blue and violet to their background.

The students enjoyed this project as they had to focus on where to place their dots of color as they created their images.

This was a great project for students to explore new art movements and techniques.

Shape Monsters

First grade students created shape monsters this fall.

First graders began with cutting out basic shapes.

Students continued to cut out more shapes of various sizes and colors.

Students began to put their shapes together to create a monster.

This project required  a lot of concentration and focus as students worked to create a monster out all of the colors and shapes they cut out.

Students worked hard to put together their ideas using scissors.

The final step was to add glue to their project.

There were many ideas as students learned to create using basic shapes with scissors and glue.

Everyone enjoyed the creative process of making monsters out of shapes.

Here are some examples of the shape monsters.

Building skills

As the 2014-2015 school year dawns my first task as an art teacher is to build and awaken the dormant creative spirit that lies within all my students.

Our first project in kindergarten is to explore building with shapes.

Students are given a variety of shapes and building materials as they process to create sculptural inventions.

Students have been very inventive with their creations.

First grade students have been using a different building material that is based upon squares and rectangles.

This building medium has required the students to view construction from a cubistic standpoint.

Students will use these introductory sessions of building in their creative explorations this school year.

Art has a way of engaging the whole learning experience as students will carry their creative experience into the rest of their school day.

I hope that you will follow us this year on our creative journey.

The students are excited to learn, and maybe their experience will inspire you!