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/

The Mill by my little Rembrandts

 Moving through our 18th century artist on our time line this year we have reached Rembrandt.  My K-2nd grade students did an artist study on Rembrandt and looked at many pieces of his artwork.  My intern, Mr. Willett, planned out a lesson revolving around Rembrandt's painting The Mill.  This inspiration led our students to do crayon resist windmills for their art pieces.  This was a great opportunity for our class to work on placement and use the horizon line in our art work as well.