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Tag Archives: Painting
Ola! Mexican Guitars!
Grade 2/3: Drawing and Painting Guitars (2 double period classes) To start, I brought in a couple of visuals. Some pictures of brightly coloured Mexican guitars, along with the equally colourful musicians who play them AND my friend Brian’s custom … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 2/3 Art Projects
Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Painting
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Tunnels of Weightlessness?
Grade 6: One Point Perspective meets Op Art meets Surrealism – Whaa? This was a project that served to introduce some images and ideas that were new to the class, and to combine those with knowledge from projects already completed … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Assemblages, Painting, Perspective
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Class Letters
Grade 5 Paper Mache Letters with Action! Painting This was a project that took quite a while to complete, but the process was a good one, and had some fun moments along the way … We began with building the … Continue reading
Why is Blue Dog, Uh, Blue?
I had to order the book from the States, but I knew I wanted to do an art project based on George Rodrigue’s Why is Blue Dog Blue?. Such a fun book. His artwork illustrations just get you wantin’ to bust open … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects
Tagged Animals, Painting
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A Patchwork Landscape
Grade 3/4 One-Point Perspective Landscapes Here is an engaging lesson in perspective that had the students enjoying the process AND the result. I began with a standard illustration of one point perspective – a road with fenceposts and telephone poles … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 3/4 Art Projects
Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Painting, Perspective, Scale
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Drawing & Painting Still Life
The Grade 7/8’s Construct a Still Life Bring in a favourite object, I said. When it came to class time, very few remembered to (Aaagh – even with reminders), so it became rather a collection of hastily grabbed objects. Too … Continue reading
Posted in Grade 7/8 Art Projects
Tagged Line Drawings, Painting
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Everybody Digs Jasper Johns (and Bill Evans)
Grade 2/3 Colour Wash Alphabets I have to say that these are some of my favourite results in teaching art so far. That may be oversimplifying it, but I just never get tired of these ones! You may notice that … Continue reading
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Tagged Drawing, Painting
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The More of Paper Masks
Grade 5 Paper Masks: Taking it Further Part II. Class 5 & 6. Just when they thought they were finished with masks, I had them work with them one more time. The teacher and I paired up the students, with … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Drawing, Oil Pastels, Painting
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Grade 2/3 Cityscapes
Drawing with Paint and Scissors Session 1: Complimentary colours, warm and cool colours, scale of buildings. With visions of Van Gogh’s skies and brushes in hand, students could choose either blue/green or yellow/orange for their sky paintings. There is something … Continue reading
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Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Painting
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Grade 2/3 Portraits
Student Portraits In conjunction with some self-reflective writing they were doing at the time, I had the grade 2/3’s do ‘head shot’ portraits of a partner in class. I started things off by demonstrating with a portrait of their teacher, … Continue reading
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Tagged Drawing, Painting, Portraiture
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