Surprised Mood

One way of making a picture look more exciting is using a different expression. 4th and 5th graders are making portraits with a suprised mood. We looked at examples of exaggerated version of anime characters with shocked and surprised expressions. They also watched a demonstration of how to dissect the basics of the expression and use it for self expression.

Vegetable Garden

Students in 2nd and 3rd grade are working on vegetable garden drawings in their back to nature unit. They are thinking about how carrots grow. Here is an example from a second grader

And here are some third grade examples

Cat Finger Puppets

Kindergarten and first grade are continuing their colorful stories unit by making car finger puppets this week. Here are a few examples from a first grade class. They identified important parts to a cat and came up with ideas that were unique to them. 

Tangled ribbons-op art

Fourth grade and Fifth grade students are working on a new unit about surprises. This art assignment required the students to apply their prior knowledge about value.

Hand puppets

The students in kindergarten and first grade are making hand puppets this week as a lesson in the colorful stories unit. They did them in one 25 minute session. This is a first grade example. 

Check out the hot cocoa mugs

The fourth and fifth grade students were practicing value and creating the illusion of form in a drawing of hot cocoa mugs. Here are some examples from the assignment. They are done in one 55 minute session for each participating class. 

Pointillism

The 8th students were researching pointillism and optical blending. They were to create a composition using the pointillism style.