Goal Wall for Art Room

 

Here's my required Goal Wall...I was resistant at first, but it has turned out to be a good thing to have. The kids can use a piece of free draw when they finish a project to draw the "art goal". This past month I've had the question : Can you draw a realistic face?

 

I have about 25 clothespins on a string that I simply clip the artwork to. The kids submit their art and at the end of the day I look through it and hang it up if they accomplished each goal.

 

Once we fill up all the clothespins, I will change the goal.

 

The objectives poster is a piece of laminated poster paper that I wrote on with dry-erase marker, that way I can easily change out the goal without making a whole new poster.

 

 

Here's some of my realistic faces that made it on the Goal Wall.

 

2nd Grade

1st Grade

 

3rd Grade

 

 

Realistic vs. Abstract Self-Portraits : 4th Grade

 

 This project was from the beginning of our 1st 9 weeks together and I just haven't gotten around to posting these. So here they are!

 

We discussed the steps of drawing a realistic self-portrait.

 

 

 

They outlined their pencil drawings with oil pastels....

 

They painted with tempera cakes...we talked about "arbitrary colors" that aren't realistic.

 

Finally, the next class I taught them about mixing skin tones using acrylic paint. (won't do that again!) And they painted over their arbitrary color with realistic colors....turned out pretty fun for an experimental project. :)

 

 

1st Grade Self-Portraits

Each year, 1st grade starts the year with a self-portrait. This year we changed a few things....we outlined with black (looks so much better!) and we added texture rubbings to our backgrounds.

They look great!

After we added pattern backgrounds with texture plates, we painted the shirt and background with tempera cakes.