Book Character 2013

This year for our annual book character dress up, I was from the book Big Bouffant.
I had so much fun with this!

I felt very creative for making my dress out of paper :)
All day long the kids asked if that was my real hair (It was a wig) :)

Paper Masks!

 5th and 6th graders made these great paper masks. Everything had to be made out of paper, and the mask had to be symmetrical. These were inspired from masks around the world. I love the uniqueness of each mask!

5th grade Oil Pastel and Watercolor Sea Turtles

These are done in watercolor with an oil pastel resist. First, students draw the turtles, then they create a design on the shell. Next, they color it with oil pastels. Finally, they paint the background with watercolors in blue and green to get that ocean like water. I've also done it where they crumple their paper up before they paint. I've omitted that step the last few times they have done this because some students are a little bit rough on that step. My 5th graders did these with my long term sub when I was gone! I think they turned out great!

Pop Art on Scratch Art paper

My 5th graders finished up the project where they used scratch art paper to design a Pop Art artwork in the style of Andy Warhol. Each student had to come up with a symbol about them and tell me why they drew that symbol. Here are some great examples...

NAEA Fort Worth!

My very first trip to NAEA!

It was a great experience and I got to see a few of my art teaching heroes!

 I made a hat (among other things)!

 I got to meet Andy Warhol at NAEA! :)

5th Grade Projects

My 5th graders have been working so fast! I'm always trying to stay one step ahead of them because they finish their projects quickly.

The first one is a Lego Style Portrait. They had to create a Lego character, fill the page, and color the background. Unfortunately,I only got a few really great ones on the Lego style portrait.

The nerd Lego man was my favorite!

Next is a one point perspective project. You've probably seen it before:

 GREAT results on this project.

 And here is our version of Andy Warhol's art : Pop Art Scratch Art!

They had to draw a symbol that represents themselves and tell me why they drew it.

That's a paintbrush, if you can't tell :)

 AND finally the displays from our Fine Arts Festival:

More Tigers and Displays!

 

Here are some more 6th grade neon tiger paintings! There are a lot of great ones!

Finally, 2 random pic of my Bulletin Boards:

 Keith Haring Drawings

Aboriginal Dot Paintings