Blooming Onions

'Blooming Onion' by stuckinthemudpottery

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Ollie Onionhead Print theblackapple $	Sweet Onion Stained Glass Pa... begeddovstaine... $78.00	Polaroid Night Light - Onion... jerseymaids $21.00
Vintage Appliques 2 Fun and ... InWiththeOldVi... $2.85	Wooden Vegetable play food -... justhatched $6.00	LAYLA Laptop Sleeve in Green... ChicBoutique $35.00
Citrine Bauble Necklace- lar... LimeintheSky $36.00	Onions oildays $65.00	5 Onion Notecards TheGreyFoxStud... $12.00
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Winter Trees

Pre-K students created Winter Trees!

Materials
White Drawing Paper
White Crayon
Blue Watercolor Paint
Green Tissue Paper
Glue
Scissors
Brown strips of paper

Procedure

For Background: Using a white crayon, add snowflakes to white drawing paper. Paint entire paper blue with watercolor paint and snowflakes will appear like magic!

For Trees: Take a sheet of drawing paper and and lay torn pieces of green tissue paper on top. Use a paintbrush to wet the tissue paper with water. Let dry and remove the pieces of tissue paper from the sheet when it is completely dry. The sheet will have splotches of green all over. 


(Day 2) From green splotchy sheet, have students cut out 3 triangles for tree tops and glue to their blue background paper (for pre-k I drew the triangles and had the students cut them out).

For Trunks: Each student was given a strip of brown paper to cut as they would like and glue to their paper for tree trunks.

Student Work

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Micography Portrait

One day I had two new and unexpected students dropped magically into my Advanced Art class. On such short notice I needed something quick to get them started on. I saw this lesson at  Art. Paper. Scissors. Glue!  and I absolutely love the results! This is a great project to start the year off with or if you need something in a pinch.

Student Work

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Isn't Blogging Grand?!

A couple weeks ago I shared with all of you a great book full of Kindergarten Art Lessons, A Work of Heart (Click Here for the original post). Well, the author, Janet Louise Conlin, somehow found my post about her book and left me a nice little comment on my blog. How cool!! Blogging really does connects people that otherwise would never have met!

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Grant Wood Fields!

2nd Grader's created landscape paintings based on artist Grant Wood.

Materials

White watercolor paper

Green, Yellow, and White oil pastels

Watercolor Paints and water buckets

Brushes 

Instruction/Motivation

Display Young Corn and Fall Plowing

Discuss:

• Subject
• Moods
• Patterns and Textures
• Colors of land and trees
• The land and lines that divide the land
• What season is it? Why?
• What kind of painting is this? (Landscape)

Art History

Grand Wood loved Iowa, farming and the farming way of life. He taught himself to draw when he was very young and did not stop until his death. His family and friends were very supportive of his art. He left Iowa to study art in Europe and eventually returned because he missed his come.

Fun Quote: "all the best ideas he ever had came to him while he was milking a cow."

Production

Students are instructed to draw a few lines in oil pastel.

Start with the horizon line.

Add a few vertical lines for the fields and wavy and horizontal lines to break up the large fields.

Use a Yellow oil pastel to draw the sun.

Use a White oil pastel to draw clouds.

Use Green, orange, brown and yellow watercolors to paint the fields.

Paint the sky blue and watch the clouds appear like magic.

Day 2 Production
Review Grant Wood
Read the Artist and the Hayloft

Finish Painting

Student Work

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Mini Monets

Pre-K's painted Monet's Bridge!

Japanese Bridge and Water Lilies, 1899

Materials

Tempera paint
Paint brushes
Sponges
White paper
Japanese Bridge and Water Lilies image
Bridge cut out of blue paper (or template for students to do themselves)

Motivation
Monet had this Japanese bridge built in his garden in Giverny, France. This is where Monet painted nature "on the spot" instead of inside a studio, as most artists did at that time.

Prep
Before class, place a nickel size dollop of blue and white paint on palette paper for each student.
Trace the bridge template on dark blue construction paper, one for each child. In class, have each child cut out their bridge, or save time by cutting out the bridges beforehand. Since I was doing this with Pre-K students that is exactly what I did!

Procedure

1. Pass out white paper, brushes, paint and sponges.

2. Have students paint with their paintbrush a blue line to divide the paper in half.
3. Students paint bottom half of paper with blue paint, using Monet's technique of short brushstrokes and dabbling.
4. Have students mix white paint into their blue to create waves in the water.
5. Give students a dollop of yellow paint to add lily pads in the water.
6. When lily pads are done, students use sponges to mix blue and yellow paint into green.
7. Use sponges to paint the remaining half of the paper green for trees.
8. Pass out a blue bridge to each student. Have them stick their bridge onto the center of their paper. The wet paint is enough to make the bridge stick without using glue!

Student Work

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Personal Self-Portraits

Drawing and Painting students drew their self-portrait with a twist. Each student integrated text into their drawing in order to add a personal element. Students drew from mirrors and I guided them step-by-step as they drew.

(Pencil drawing are so hard to photograph well, any tricks??)

Materials

Paper

Pencil

Mirrors

Motivation/Instruction

Students drew several blind contour drawings using a mirror. For some of the drawings I timed the students and for others I asked the students to go very slow, paying close attention to line and shape. To personalize their portrait, text was included. Students listed several personality traits on a sheet of paper.

Procedure

Draw an oval for face

Divide into quarters

Divide each 1/2 in 1/2 again

 

>I informed the students that their facial features and placement would be different from what I draw on the board. That is why we all look different. They should be continuously looking in the mirror to make the features look like their own.<

Have students adjust the oval to represent their own face shape (chin, jaw, etc.) and begin to add features:

1. Add Eyes. Notice eyes are an "eyes width" apart.

2. Add Nose. Resting on lowest horizontal line.

3. Add lips. Halfway between chin and lowest horizontal line.

4. Add ears. Generally starting at eyes and ending at nose.

5. Add neck.

Last step is to add text in an interesting manner.

Student Work

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From A Fallen Tree

'From A Fallen Tree' by stuckinthemudpottery

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