Sunflowers Up Close & Personal

Students viewed paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and we talked about his theme of sunflowers and also of painting heavily. We then decided to make a project using his style as our inspiration. Using oil pastels, students created a Sunflowers Project but changed it a little and made our sunflowers "up close" instead of in a traditional bouquet. They turned out bright and beautiful!

Unassisted Self-Portraits

I asked the students to create their own self-portrait without any help from me. This is certainly a good starting point for these young artists. By the end of the year, I will have "Assisted Self-Portraits" as well. I love seeing the difference!!!

Students participated in an art contest for a dental office in our town. Here is just a sampling of the wonderful projects that were completed.

Butterflies

Amazing things happen in class when you instruct students to "create a butterfly art project". I rarely do this, but wow, interesting and creative results!

Room Pictures 2010-2011

Joan Miro Paintings

Students viewed "People and Dog in Sun" by artist, Joan Miro and then created their own piece of art work based on this masterpiece. they used crayon, tempera paint, and watercolor paint.

Birds on the Beach

After discussing recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the ecological effects of it in our region, I led the students in drawing their own "Birds of the Beach". We discussed pelicans, herons, and the egret. Students picked the setting where the bird would be. We only used pencils for sketching and oil pastels for adding color.