In 3rd grade we are celebrating the season by learning how to blend oil pastels in a painterly fashion to create highlights and shadows within our pumpkin patch landscapes. Below is a time lapse video I made of the process we are following:
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My favorite thing to teach in kindergarten and young fives is easily color mixing. Our first two projects of the year used only primary colors. This time students still only had red, yellow, and blue watercolors but they learned how to use them to paint some beautiful fall pumpkins. Students mixed orange for their pumpkin, purple for their sky, and green for their grass.
The excitement you see on their faces as they make "magic" for the first time and create a new color is one of my favorite moments. This wax resist project is filled with magic as they learn how to use crayon and watercolor together to create the wind in their skies as well. I would say this is a BIG success for the first painting project of the year! What do you think? Here is a short video showing you how to make your textured value grass for you landscape! Remember to use the layering blending technique to create your concentric circle sky! In this oil pastel demo I use red, orange, and yellow to create the value for my pumpkin. Remember the lightest values should be at the top where the moonlight hits your pumpkin and darkest at the bottom where it should be in shadow. You can use brown for your stem, white for highlights, and black to outline! As soon as I stumbled upon contemporary artist Eloise Renouf's whimsical landscapes I knew I wanted to incorporate it into a project somehow. For 1st grade it came in the form of a fall tree collage. Students used warm colors to give their trees an autumn appearance.
Our first learning target was to use size and proportion to give the illusion of space and depth. The second learning target was to use overlapping to create the appearance of depth in their collage as well. Students worked in their sketchbooks to come up with as many different line designs as they could for their tree branches! I love the variety! Remember when you are posting on Seesaw to sign in for your grade and photograph you nice and clear at the Publishing Station! After lots of research about artists and the how the environment impacts their ability to create I decided to make a BIG change in the art room. Every child has a different set of strengths and challenges when entering the art room and it is my goal to encourage them to embrace both to better themselves as artists and individuals. To help motivate students to take more ownership of their learning I have created several different types of spaces for students to work in. We have 4 levels at which students can work: tall tables for standing, regular tables for sitting or standing, short tables for kneeling, and floor space where students can work with a clipboard and rug or yoga mat. I have loved seeing how confident the students have been with trying out the different levels. Students have been encouraged to try out every level so they can determine what works best for them and where they can focus on their artwork the most. This change has opened up the space in the art room tremendously! Students are much more free to move when working and are able to share supplies more easily. Working in a position that is comfortable for them helps to eliminate the fidgeting that they sometimes experience when working in a space that doesn't feel natural to them. They also have better control over the perspective of their artwork now which has had a big impact on their craftsmanship in a very short amount of it! As an art educator it is my hope to slowly transition the art room into a space where students can feel independent and confident in their choices and ability to create. This is a small step towards that goal and the students have embraced it beautifully! What are your thoughts on flexible seating in the classroom? I look forward to posting updates as we move forward with this new environment!
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