Water color and Wax Resist(crayon)

           Today was my last day teaching Mrs. Keele's class. It was sad to say goodbye but we had an exciting last day. The students had lots to work on. Some needed to finish their collages and the rest started a new project.
          I give the students information on how to make art and give them ideas as to what they can do but I like to give the students lots of freedom as to what subject matter they use in art and how they want to make their art.  This encourages the students to use their creativity.
         We talked  about perspective today. What it is and how artist portray it in their art. We also learned about water color. The students made winter watercolors with white crayon resist. All of them were so different and great. Almost all of the self portrait collages are finished as well so we took a class photo together.
Thanks Mrs. Keele and Mrs. Keele's super cool third graders! It was tons of fun.

Collage Continued

This week we continued working on our collages. I showed the students more examples of collages in hopes of giving them more ideas as they worked. It think it was successful because the collages that the students have made are great. They are interesting to look at and you can see their personalities come through as you look at their collages. Here are a few pictures. 

Collage

         Today was great. It was probably one of my favorite days so far. I think the students enjoyed it too. We collaged on the self portraits we made last week. For those who don't know exactly what collage is we learned about it in class. Collage can be paper, wood, foam, fabric and any other materials that are glued to a surface to create an interesting composition. Collage can focus on a particular theme (such as flowers or sports), a color, or even a feeling. We also talked about some important elements in art; texture and repetition. After all the learning the class started collaging or coloring their self portraits. We had colored paper, stickers, magazines, ribbon and tape to use. We ended up with some awesome art and a bit of a mess but it was well worth it. We will be working on these next time because we didn't finish today.

Self Portrait

We started a new project today that will last the next couple weeks.  We first learned about Leonardo da Vinci and looked at some of his drawings and paintings.Then we learned about drawing a self portrait. We talked about proportions of a face and a bit about what the eyes nose and mouth look like. The students had photos of themselves as reference to look at as they drew there own faces. It went well a few students were concerned about it looking exactly like them but they all did a great job and realized that it took da Vinci a lot of practice to make his faces look life like. Next week we will collage on our paper and put some color on our faces. 

Sculpture

You know it is a great day when a student yells "hello Miss. Stewart" at you before you even get in the school and when the first thing the students say to you is "I wish you could come everyday".

The students made sculptures out of modeling clay today. First we had a lesson on what sculpture is, what 3D means, what materials can be used to make a sculpture, and we talked about different ancient sculptures. I loved the sculptures the students made. They were all very unique and creative.
Here are some pictures!

Monster Mash

Today we made collaborative monsters to add to our Halloween house. In the art world we call this type of collaboration exquisite corpse. I am not sure why  it is called this but it makes it sound even more monsterish in my opinion. How it works is you have a sheet of paper that is split into three sections. The first student draws a head in the top section then they fold it back and pass it to a neighbor. Then the next student draws the torso. They fold that over and then pass it for a last time to a neighbor for the legs.  In the end you get a monster with two or three heads maybe five arms and tentacles for legs or what ever else the students are creative enough to draw. Mrs. Keeles class is especially creative so i will post some pictures of our monsters for you to see.