Student Work Samples

 A few more examples of some of my student's artwork for display.  This is the blue dog by a 2nd grader and below a two point perspective drawing by a 7th grader.

 This a a perspective and shading drawing by an 8th grader and a butterfly below by a 7th grader.

Art Samples

 Just a few examples of my students' past work.  Hope you are inspired.  I teach the artist Laurel Burch, and we create birds and cats done with oil pastels.  This bird is by a 3rd grader and the cat below is by a first grader.

 This is a landscape by a 7th grader.  It is tempera cake paints done in a loose impressionistic style.
And Abe done by a 4th grader.

A self portrait with portraits of two friends done by a 5th grader.

 Line drawing of a frog by a 6th grader, drawn from looking at a photograph.

And, a self portrait at Valentines

Misc. Spring

 Got this idea from pinterest, gonna go to a baby shower on Saturday and wanted to make a cute card.  The clouds are scrapbooking paper and then I just fringed the grass, added the wood poles with brown paper.  I hole punched the tops and threaded the line through, then knotted it.  Added the baby clothes with patterened paper and embellishments, then added a pre-made text box.  So easy, and cute.  the clothes pins are mini ones that I got at Michaels.  They come in colored or plain wood. 

 Bulletin board in my artroom.  These are hearts that the kinders did for valentines day.  I gave different tables different colors, warm or cool.  I made sure the colors could blend together and not make brown, because sometimes the kids go over and over the paints. 

 Another bulletin board in my room,  hearts and concentric circles.  The hearts are tissue paper collages with oil pastel hearts and then collaged the word love with magazine letters cut out.

Picasso's Hand with bouquets done by my kinders.  Artists trace their hand on skin colored paper, and cut out.  Collage the stems and glue on hands, and then the flowers are tissue paper squares wrapped around the end of the pencil and then glued. 

Dirt Cake

Ok, so my little boy is turning 13 today, and I know that is a little old for the themed cake, but I just love being creative in the cake department, so I wanted to make a dirt cake.  I have seen a few on pinterest and  so I got this tractor at the 99cents store, made a bundt cake and added a plastic bottle insert in the midde, covered it with chocolate frosting and oreo crumbs.  I even took a piece out so it looks like there is a hole being dug.  Happy Birthday Henry!

liquid watercolors

I started using the liquid water colors this year and really love them.  I tell the kids to try and not add any water to them, so they stay really vibrant.  I use to get frustrated with the tray watercolors because we always seemed to run out of blue and the yellow always got dirty.  The watercolors seem to be much more bright and last a lot longer.  I will never buy trays again.

Inspiration

 Vocab words: concentric, and colaborative, radiate.  My elementary students have been learning about Wassily Kandinsky and concentric circles.  We got the inspiration for tis project from his "squares with concentric rings."  The students started with a 9" square of white paper.  folded it into fourths to find the center.  Then in multi-colored  crayon they drew concentric circles radiating out from the center, then added patterns inbetween.  Next we watercolored the rest with liquid watercolors.  When they had dried, I cut them into fourth and they traded 3 of the fourths and kept one of their own.  Next we taped them back together for a colaborative piece of art.  I am working on a larger one in which the elementary classes are creating as one big colaborative piece.  Hope you're inspired.......

We have also been inspired by Andy Warhol lately.  Working on these pop art pieces.  We haven't done the handprinting part yet, but the kids are tracing their hand 4 times and coloring them in solid bright colors, with coordinating background colors.  We will handprint next time with black tempera. 

Colorwheel Game

Here is a fun group activity for artclass when you have a few minutes left of art time.  I had a huge tub of crayons left on each table after our art lesson and I challenged each group to make a color wheel with their crayons.  They had to dig for the primary, secondary and intermediate colors and then arrange them on their table before the other groups.  I dismissed them when they got it right.  For the younger kids I went over the color wheel, and told them there were 12 colors and I told them there wasn't any pink, brown, black or white in the color wheel.  Have fun.