1st Grade RAINBOW FISH!

We recently read the story "Rainbow Fish" and it's also avaliable on the best website ever: http://www.storylineonline.net/

Anyway, the kids created a fish...we echoed the steps together and they outlined the fish with a variety of colors using crayons. Then we painted them using liquid watercolors...the colors are so great. Then, to tie it in with the story, we added one shining silvery scale because the rainbow fish was only truly happy when he shared his beautiful scales with his friends.

It was a lot of fun!

Nashville Beautification Contest : Art Truck Winners from Mt.View!

Congrats to Trinity Terry and Cheyenne Beehner! Their artwork has been displayed all over Nashville on this Red River Truck. The truck visited our school on Monday, April 23 to show off their art to our school.

Trinity in front of her poster

Me and Cheyenne in front of her poster

The Truck!

New Bulletin Board! Fishy Thoughts....

Well, I've been wanting to put up a new bulletin board and I randomly had the idea to do an ocean theme....in honor of summertime and my upcoming honeymoon! So, my wonderful fiance Daniel brought me lunch and we put up this 'Art Smarts' board....hopefully it will inspire kids to 'do the right thing' and also remember the art room rules!

Enjoy!

Got Paint??

So, two of my classes painted today with tempera paint and I absolutely could not throw it out at the end of the day. I have such a hard time wasting art supplies...I'm sure we all feel the same way. Anyway, I was looking at all those palettes wondering what in the world I could do, besides scrape it out for reuse.

Then I remembered good ol' Eric Carle and his beautiful collages. I have always wanted to do an Eric Carle project, but never have...weird, I know. So, I grabbed a stack of white drawing paper and just started to fill the page with the leftover paint. Now, I have 10+ sheets of "Eric Carle" paper for collage projects! (or Henri Matisse for that matter!)

Just an idea....

Rocketships! 1st Grade

This Rocketship project is a work in progress...and of course, I borrowed this lesson from deepspacesparkle.com! First we drew a rocket in pencil.

Drawing the rocket

Adding creative designs

Then, we outlined our designs with a black oil pastel

Then we painted the rockets with a limited palette of blue, orange, yellow-orange and gray.

It's amazing how everybody's art is so unique!

Students were encouraged to create a new color in the empty space on their paint trays.

Photos from the Mayor's Art Show - March 31st

Congratulations Students of Mt.View!!

Mayor's Art Show! (more pics coming soon)

I'll be posting my pictures later, but here's a link to the official photographs taken on March 31st! Congrats to all the students that have their artwork hanging up in a famous art museum!

Here is the link to images made at the Mayors Art Show <http://www.metrophotos.nashville.gov/eventphotos/images/Mayors%20Events%20Page/03%20March/1103-31%20Mayors%20Art%20Show%20at%20the%20Frist/index.asp>