{"id":139,"date":"2020-03-30T09:44:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/?p=139"},"modified":"2020-03-30T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:44:16","slug":"2nd-3rd-and-4th-grade-art-lesson-alligators-inspired-by-andy-saczynski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/2020\/03\/30\/2nd-3rd-and-4th-grade-art-lesson-alligators-inspired-by-andy-saczynski\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd, 3rd and 4th Grade Art Lesson: Alligators inspired by Andy Saczynski"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Florida artist <strong>Andy Saczynski<\/strong> is known for his alligators.\u00a0 He uses <strong>mixed media<\/strong>, meaning he uses a variety of materials to make his art including <strong>recycled materials<\/strong>.\u00a0 His alligators are painted with bright and lively <strong>patterns<\/strong>. Create your own alligator inspired by his work.\u00a0 As seen in the examples, an alligator can be drawn more easily using simple shapes such as rectangles and triangles.\u00a0 I encourage you to use mixed media but you can use any materials you wish.  Cardboard and other material like wrapping paper and old magazines are great for mixed media and collage.\u00a0 The first two examples are by the artist while the other two are by students.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/ArMwfZqVpT_FVOOu7VS0g705nqgbRUHqFIeeWr4NDVfpQc9sxsqHLLJeqvxi-bApRUZwR36q35kbIkbCt2Y2u53MePbND5Vx0_LUthoB4v27Y6zYEOFUjdLrrIruGT7sT38Vbjvv\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"294\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-G7xULapjmD6bvH2UozBcU5SnFtNjcC1BtGYXl4FcaqOoHiyC_S9X5-nkAKe-9PJXWi-8uk9qJ79rlJHMVzJau7mlZpjlOIsr3IHzpSNiPeAH2V3cXGrtKFNQucGbe4byOrN1-8Z\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"483\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/nQLR5NkKc9TMFKWvpu4_jRjAxcJ90X5jU3jE2vTkMcQwfjM3Ob1DLFvmqHHgEM41zbD9xfBC_WU_Zx2UkcnrnoZj7ltO6iSXvmyFhK4Kn20LcvjyVOKUYKY1msWKHiy-ZrVPg9Ch\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"561\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/GhNBc3cc93X6c0edlNDjP0f3fZzzRRHy8gJbJKqRWz6r_jtpQVeGodCs2CyMkddX7ZP15ez-yqpVg52vi9Djl3tEz1y9Pe76X_tZOdkCL4WCMBjcKz3W9kgXIOwyUI7d9SBNqEU2\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"655\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida artist Andy Saczynski is known for his alligators.\u00a0 He uses mixed media, meaning he uses a variety of materials to make his art including recycled materials.\u00a0 His alligators are painted with bright and lively patterns. Create your own alligator inspired by his work.\u00a0 As seen in the examples, an alligator can be drawn more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/goecke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}