Still Life with Overlapping Pumpkins

The first graders are working on adding overlapping pumpkins on top of  the patterned table cloth that was designed the week before.  We took advantage of the pumpkins provided to me by the first grade teachers after their visit to Erwin’s Apple Orchard.The students were able to bring their pumpkins to the art room  and draw out of observation. Thank you to all those teachers for their cooperation.

For this project, I created my own still life in the classroom with overlapping pumpkins so the students can understand the concept of overlapping and how objects can be arranged in a still life..

2D Mexican Sombreros

The third graders are working on tracing the line patterns they already created to design the 2D sombraros.  This time, they are showing patterns using colors.

While waiting on the clay sombraros to dry and be fired in the kiln,the 4th graders are working on a 2D project.

Owl Design

Students are working on drawing an owl using shapes.

The art of the artist Thaneeya McArdle is an inspiration for this assignment.

Thaneeya”s owl design

Still Life  :  Mexican Cacti

Overlapped Cacti:

This week the students drew the overlapping cacti inside the patterned pots.

They were asked to show overlapping in the still life drawing.

Clay Sombraro

The last group  of students finished making and designing their own clay sombraro. Now, we are going to wait for them to dry so they can be fired and ready to be painted.

Owl Design Inspired by the Artist Thaneeya McArdle

After looking closely at the art of Thaneeya McArdle, the students learned how to draw an owl using shapes.  They practiced on a sketch paper first.  Then, they had to draw it on the final paper after making some adjustments.

Sugar Skull Design

Fifth graders are continuing to work on their sugar skull design inspired by the art of the artist Thaneeya McArdle.

This week, they were assign to trace the line design with crayons showing patterns and symmetry.

Students took a pre-test about the elements of art.

Still Life  :  Mexican Cacti

Patterned Pots:

This week the students traced the line patterns they made the week before to decorate the pot with crayons.

They were asked to show patterns using colors.

Still-Life

This week, the first graders brought the pumpkin that they got from Erwim’s Apple Orchard to the art room.  They learned how to draw pumpkin from observation.  In order to see what part of the pumpkin they can’t see when it is overlapped by another pumpkin they had to borrow one from a friend to figure it out.

They learned to use curved and straight line to draw 3 pumpkins (small-medium-big)

This week during the art class we learned about shapes and made shapes with oil clay.