Wicked Warhol's!

I am in love with this lesson. First graders last learned about how Georgia OKeeffe made the world look different at flowers by making them really big! Then they learned how Warhol looked differently at the world by making art from things that maybe weren't considered art and learned how to print make. Once the students made 4 prints of flowers, we created mixed media collages inspired by Warhol's flower images. I'm thrilled with the results and I think the kiddos really enjoyed it too! 

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Starry Night over Nashville!

Part of our districts art curriculum is to teach first graders about architecture. I found this lesson on Deep Space Sparkle Blog and gave it a Nashville twist. What better way then to relate it to what they know, here in Nashville that is the Batman Building!

Before constructing their own batman buildings, the students looked at Van Gogh's Starry Night and painted their own starry night backgrounds for their cityscapes...

After their paintings were dry, the following class students drew on black construction paper with white crayons to outline their buildings silhouette, cut them out, and paste them onto their beautiful paintings. Finally we also added some colored construction paper clippings for windows. Here are the results...

Find more on our school's artsonia site!



1st Grade Matisse Collages

After a short power point about the artist Henri Matisse, students were instructed to create an abstract collage without using pencils to draw out their shapes before cutting. Students were also instructed to create a border which framed in their central image. I demonstrated how they could make cut outs in their paper by folding their paper scraps over- it was like I taught them a magical secret! Here are the results!

3rd Grade Torn Paper Landscapes

The third graders did an excellent job with learning about landscapes. The students learned the parts of a landscape- foreground, middleground, background, and sky- and used torn paper to illustrate the different parts. The details were then added using oil pastels. Check our the results. More can be found on our artsonia page.