I Scream, You Scream, We ALL Scream for ICE CREAM POP ART!

Time for a little Wayne Theibaud art lesson and our kick off to POP ART!  My students did great on this collage.  Here is the link for my step by step power point that I made for these pieces to use with yourstudents. http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/huskeyj72501-2134276-theibaud-inspired-ice-cream-collage/

   All we have left to do next week is our writing piece to display with our art.  We are working on FRACTIONS in math too...so the terminology used during our artwork engaged students in fractions as well.  We are also making predictions on how fast our ice cream will melt (next week's activity to go along with our writing when we go outside for art and ice cream!

Salvador Dali, Mustaches and 2nd Graders

Inspired by Jacquelien at http://kidsartists.blogspot.com we created our version of Dali style self portraits with a melted clock.  My 2nd graders really loved this project and the results were simple but really showed their styles.  We incorporated math by learning about the clock, placement of numbers and telling time.  You can see my step by step "How To" power point presentation at http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/huskeyj72501-1762896-2nd-grade-mustache-salvador-dali/

Pezzettino Masterpieces with Leo Lionni

Pezzettino is an Italian word that means "little piece".  This is a great story of how we all fit together to make the bigger picture.

"Pezzettino lives in a world in which everyone is big and does daring and wonderful things. But he is small, just a “little piece,” which is the meaning of pezzettino in Italian. “I must be a piece of somebody. I must belong to someone else,” he thinks. How Pezzettino learns that he belongs to no one but himself is the joyous and satisfying conclusion to this beautiful mosaic style picture book." - Amazon

Grid Art Block, Digital Art, Initials & paint.net

My Digital Art class made these awesome pieces using paint.net!  We created a grid first as our background.  On their next layer they colored each block a different color, careful not to let two of the same colors touch.  The final layer required them to create their initial on top of the color blocks.  They look really cool and if they were mine I would frame them and hang in my room.

                         

Wayne Thiebaud & a little Probability

 

My 2nd graders did a fab job with this SWEET art!  We did our artist study on Thiebaud and looked at many pieces of his art work.  Next they created a single gumball machine with sharpies.  We used crayons to color the piece.  They selected only 3 colors to use on their gumballs.  We did a crayon resist with water color over the top then we added our probability coin that they had to fill out.  You can see my power point we used here:

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/huskeyj72501-1724852-draw-thiebaud-39-gumball-machine/

American Gothic Grid Art

Our artist study on Grant Wood was integrated in our math art projects by using a GRID to construct our American Gothic drawings.   The image I used for my students is below.  I added the grid on top of the piece.  I displayed this on the projector and gave the students a blank grid paper.  I really think my 4th graders did a great job.  They did the fact sheet below to go with their art work as well.