1st Grade Still Life

This is hands down one of my favorite projects that first graders do. Every student's work turns out wonderful, beautiful and unique! I wish I could hang each one in my house, they are so bright and cheery!

The first graders began by learning about the art element of space. They learned that space is the empitness around and between objects. We then spent a day drawing flowers in vases on our tables. We talked about how important it is to actually look at the flowers and draw what you see in front of you, not what you think the flowers look like.

After drawing and outlining our flowers we used water colors to paint them. Incredible!

3rd Grade Positive/Negative Space Masks

The 3rd graders have been learning a lot about the element of space. We've learned that it is the area we can create art in... it goes from side to side, top to bottom and from the front of the picture to the back of the picture (depth). We learned we can create depth by overlapping objects and also by using scale. We have now added one more thing to the element of space: Positive space and negative space. Positive space happens where objects have been added to a piece of artwork. Negative space is the empty space left over. In order to explore positive and negative space a little more, we created masks! The students had to be good direction followers and great listeners in order to get theirs to turn out right. Can you tell which spaces are positive and which spaces are negative?

Finished Penguins!

I am in love with these penguins that the 2nd graders have finished! They look incredible! Nice work 2nd grade!

Painted Penguins

Hmmmm... I seem to be on a penguin theme this year :) The kids love, them, though and always get so excited to draw and paint them. These second grade penguin paintings are turning out great! We have been talking about depth and overlapping. We learned that depth is the amount of space between the front and the back of the picture. Art is so awesome because even though the piece of paper is flat, we can make it feel like there is great depth (a lot of space) between the front and the back. We talked about how overlapping is a way to show depth. When one object hides another, it's called overlapping. I know that the object I can see all of is in front and the object that is partially hidden is in back. The second graders are doing so well at soaking up these concepts, not to mention being perfect penguin painters! :)

Snow Globe

Third graders have been busy working away on their snow globes. They are turning out beautifully! We learned about foreground, background, overlapping and depth with these projects. Whew! That is a lot of information to cover! The third graders did great, though, and not only learned alot but produced some great art! Nice work!