Third grade artists have finished their tree weaving! We began this project by learning about landscapes and painting a landscape on a paper plate. Each artist used details to show a particular season and a particular time of day/night. After painting the landscapes, everyone had to turn their plate into a loom. A loom is …
Third grade artists looked at the sculptures of Barbara Kobylinska for inspiration for their latest artwork. Each artist began by planning what they wanted their sculpture to look like by making a drawing to show the shape, colors, and designs they wanted to use. Then they used recycled materials to create the form and used …
Third grade artists took a small break from their crazy bird sculptures to learn about a new artists, Peter Max. We created our own versions of Peter Max’s painted hearts using warm and cool colors in time for Valentine’s Day. Each artist painted a heart and a frame using only cool, or only warm, colors, …
Third grade artists looked at some of the word art of Roy Lichtenstein. Each artist wrote a word that expresses a sound for the subject matter of their artwork. Then they added shapes around the words that were similar to those used in comics. While adding color with markers, they chose at least one …
Third grade artists have been learning about value in the art room. Value is an element of art. Each artist began by drawing three pumpkins that showed overlapping. Then they traced all of their pencil lines with glue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdFJC2jQOQ Then they practiced showing value with chalk by making a value scale and blending two …
Third grade artists learned about still lifes in the art room! A still life is when an artist draws or paints objects that are right in front of them (things that stand still and are in “real life” so the artist can see all of the details). Third grade artists looked at Vincent …
On the first day of art class this year each artist practiced our art room procedures. Then, everyone made their own monochromatic self portrait for our Welcome Back Mural. We learned that monochromatic means ‘one color’ and we colored our self portraits with just one color. A self-portrait is a picture an artist draws of themselves! Once …
Third grade artists looked at some of Georgia O’Keefe’s flower paintings. Then, they chose a flower from the art room to draw as large as they could. The last step was to paint and to create tints with white on the petals.
Third grade artists made cupcakes in the art room! They used air-dry clay to make two pinch pots. Then they added texture to one pinch pot to make it look like the bottom of a cupcake. They added sprinkles, cherries, or lines to look like frosting to the other pinch pot. When the clay had …
Third grade artists have been studying the elements of art! These are the building blocks used by artists to create artwork. Each artist created an Elements of Art book with one page for each element. The first page was the element of line. Artists designed their heading with different kinds of line and then labeled …