Showing posts with label liquid watercolor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liquid watercolor. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Friday, October 4, 2019
Fall Forests inspired by Gustav Klimt ... In Progress
First and second grade artists looked at several of Gustav Klimt's forest paintings. We learned that Klimt loved to spend time in the forests around his town. Click here to read more about Klimt's forest paintings and see others.
We used masking tape to create trees in our forests and painted them with warm and cool colors.
Monday, September 23, 2019
Friday, September 20, 2019
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Cosmic Landscapes inspired by Peter Max
From the Peter Max Website:
America's Painter Laureate and Pop Art Icon, Peter Max's bold colors, uplifting images and uncommon artistic diversity have touched almost every aspect of American culture and has inspired many generations.
Max's work has been called cosmic and psychedelic. His more recent works represent his ideas about a harmonious, beautiful world. He is well known for his album cover art, particularly for the Beatles.
Fifth and sixth grade artists examined many of Max's works before designing their own cosmic landscapes in his style. Each student's piece contains elements that can be seen in many of Max's works. What are some of the repeated images and themes that you see in the Peter Max pictures above and in the student work below?
Friday, September 28, 2018
Kindergarten Sunflowers inspired by Van Gogh
Kindergarten artists looked at Vincent Van Gogh's famous sunflower paintings, then made their own using liquid watercolor paints.
Friday, September 21, 2018
Beautiful Hands
Kindergarten artists read "Beautiful hands by Kathryn Otoshi and Bret Baumgarten. They traced their hands and colored them with construction paper crayons, then painted with liquid watercolors in warm or cool colors. They observed the watercolor resist technique.
Monday, May 21, 2018
Painted Indian Elephants
Third and fourth graders were studying India in their classroom and were learning about the different festivals and holidays. The tradition of painting elephants for the Elephant Festival in Jaipur was particularly interesting to students. We looked at many images, including photographs from this National Geographic article. Artists filled their painted elephants with as many different patterns and colors as possible using Sharpie markers, liquid watercolor paint and Crayola construction paper crayons.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Monday, March 19, 2018
Collages inspired by Rex Ray by Grades 3 and 4
A few examples of Rex Ray's Collages:
Look for:
Warm and Cool Colors
Organic Shapes
Positive and Negative Space
Texture
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Faux Leaves Stained Glass by Grade Three & Four
Third and fourth grade artists looked at several examples of leaf artwork, including Georgia O'Keeffe. We also examined Stained Glass Windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Then we went outside to collect fallen leaves to inspire our work. Artists traced their leaves on the paper to create a balanced composition. Then they traced their lines with black glue (glue+black tempera paint). When the glue dried (into a giant black puddle on my art room floor... oops!), they used warm and cool color groups to paint their leaves and backgrounds. We used liquid watercolors.
Stained Glass window by Louis C. Tiffany and Leaves by Georgia O'Keeffe.
This lesson was inspired by Crayola Lessons
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Ten Circles, Five Lines by Kindergartners
Kindergarten artists were asked to create artwork using ten circles and five lines. We discussed all of the ways they could use theses pieces to create unique works of art. They painted with liquid watercolors.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
I'm back!
After a brief stint at Waitsfield School and a lovely February break I am now back at Fayston until the end of the school year. Mrs. Morse will now be covering my classes at Waitsfield for the rest of the year.
I returned from maternity leave to find many wonderful lessons completed or in progress.
First and second graders created "Stick-Start Abstract Paintings." They used sticks to print abstract designs in black acrylic, then painted the white space with liquid watercolors.
Third and fourth graders learned about the color wheel and complimentary colors.
They also created Picasso face collages.
Kindergarten artists also learned about Picasso and created Picasso Portraits.
Click here to learn more about the progression of Picasso's portraits from realistic to abstract.
First and second graders created collages inspired by Jerry Uelsmann.
Fifth and sixth graders learned about Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. They created buildings in Hundertwasser's architectural style. 
First and second graders painted green paper in different values and textures, then used these to create tree collages. 
Thank you to the wonderful Kindergarten class for such a warm welcome back and a fabulous Dr. Seuss hat!
Monday, December 8, 2014
Zoom in on Pinecones
I am constantly encouraging students to "draw what you see, not what you know." This lesson was an exercise in drawing from observation. We got up close with our pinecones and looked for patterns and repeating shapes. We tried to capture interesting views of the pinecones as we made the smallest details the focal points of our drawings. Third and fourth graders worked carefully in pencil and Sharpie marker before painting their works using value scales with liquid watercolors.
Monday, May 5, 2014
"Birds of a feather" piece for art auction
Students in Mrs. Boyden's first and second grade class created this group piece for our Children's Art Auction at the Bridge Street Art Fair on Saturday, May 17.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Up, up and away! Piece for Art Auction complete!
Students in Mrs.. Goldhammer's first and second grade class created this collaborative piece for our Children's Art Auction at the Bridge Street Art Fair on Saturday, May 17.
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