Star Wars Collage Video!

Jeremy Messersmith - Tatooine from Eric Power on Vimeo.

Impressionism for Kids!

Lately the 2nd and 4th graders have been learning all about Claude Monet and Impressionism. We have been practicing with Monet's famous paintings of "The Bridge over the Pond".


We started by drawing the Japanese bridge with pencil. Then we taped off the bridge using masking tape and painted the background with a watercolor wash of cool colors. The washes turned out great!



2nd Grader's Bridge and Watercolor wash



2nd Grade Bridge!

The next step is to add the Impressionist garden with dabs and dashes of tempera paint. The students are repurposing q-tips to create their Impressionist marks.

Adding Impressionist marks and water lilies in honor of Monet!

Finally, when the painting is complete, we will reveal the bridges and remove the tape!! More photos coming soon!!

Monet Paintings Video

Monet from Philip Scott Johnson on Vimeo.

Atmospheric Perspective Collages

Well I have to say thank you to Mrs.Jahnig, again! She had this lesson posted on her blog and I took it and ran with it.

We have been working on an architecture unit for quite sometime now and this lesson just fell right into place. We create a skyline with newspaper first, then we added layers of tissue paper to show atmospheric perspective and now we've been creating collage houses and buildings in the foreground. We did lose some of our skyline during the process, but they are looking so neat!

Vocabulary for this lesson:
Atmospheric Perspective
Collage
Mixed Media
Skyline
Dillute
Frank Gehry
Frank Lloyd Wright
Foreground, Middleground, Background

3rd Grade Monograms!

I learned how to teach this lesson with the fabulous Dr.Winningham. She is a fiber arts queen and the kids really enjoy working on this project!

We are using burlap fabric and yarn with large embroidery needles.

They are creating a monogram with their initials. Their monogram has a motif consisting of a color scheme, their favorite imagery and spectacular fonts showcasing their names!

We have had about 1-2 work days on these so far and they're coming along great!

Kindergarten's Warhol Paintings

We've been studying emotions of color lately and how we can draw expressions on faces to convey a certain feeling. We are working the warm and cool color families and exploring color mixing within those analogous color schemes.

Painting the "warm side"...

First we drew angry expressions, happy ones, frustrated...etc.

Next, we painted the cool color side which consisted of blue sad faces, hurt faces, and some frightened.

We looked at some of Andy Warhol's paintings to see how he utilizes color and have been inspired by his unusual and bright color choices.

We will go back on top of paintings, once they are dry and bring out some of the features that got lost in the paint. Finally, we'll dispay these in the hallway as our "Warhol Wall o'Faces". Pictures coming soon!

Sock Puppets!

Well, my 3rd graders that come on Friday are an 'Art Club' type class and we recently made sock puppets. They split up into groups and created a 'back drop' and were encouraged to write a script for a puppet show. Here are some pictures of their puppets.