Last Days of Art Club

Both groups of the Guild Art Club had their final meetings with an Arty Party! We had giant mural painting, water gun painting, free build with clay, iPad digital art apps, and snacks! I'll miss my 5th graders, make me proud in middle school!

Sick Days...

Being home sick is no fun. It's way more stressful to prepare for a sub day than to just go to school. But it does mean that I can catch up on my blog. :D

We just finished up Pop Art (how awesome is the Pop Art filter on Snap Chat?!) and now we are on Modern Art. We are looking at Jasper Johns, Dale Chihuly, Sandy Skoglund, Richard Serra, and Banksy. I am LOVING what the kids have done so far, can't wait to share their finished projects!

Without me today, the kids are working on a Drawing Challenge that I made. Feel free to use, here is the link to the Google Drive file. 

It also has a word search I found online in case they finish early. Hope they're having fun! 

Marker Prints Forever!

During my time at the Frist Center, I helped with literally 1000s of printmaking activities. I do love printmaking, but with limited space, it's kind of challenging in the classroom, especially with rambunctious groups. 

Image from Cassie Stephens "Troubleshooting Printmaking"

Then Cassie Stephens made a post about marker prints that made printing accessible for every project.  She found the idea from art teacher Don Masse over at Shine Brite Zamorano.

Basically, you cut styrofoam into whatever shape you want and use a stylus or pencil to carve details. Same as regular printmaking so far. Then, instead of using ink or paint, you color on the styrofoam with washable markers.

After that, you get your paper wet. First, I tried spray bottles and it did not work at all. Then I tried rubbing the paper with a sponge and the results were great! I gave my kids brayers to roll over their styrofoam to get even pressure. They turn out beautiful, bright, and the kids can recreate this with stuff they have at home! Love marker prints, marker prints forever!

We did this with our Pop Art unit, so there is a lot of food. :P

Magritte's Birds

This is no original art project. We've all seen this lesson in elementary art before. For this lesson in 1st grade, I wanted to emphasize the elements of Magritte's bird paintings that are sometimes overlooked; the clouds and stars. Specifically, I wanted them to be realistic. 

We spent the first day drawing and paints two pieces of paper to collage; a day time picture and a night time picture. I gave them handouts of cloud types and constellations to reference. It also helps to make this lesson a little more STEAM-y. It's never too early to learn about stars! 

Clouds Handout Here

 Constellations Handout Here

Dr. Seuss Balloons

Students in the k-2nd art club created paper mache hot air balloons for Dr. Seuss day. It's funny how many kids were grossed out over the paper mache mix. ^_^

After they dried hard, we painted them with pastel colors like Dr. Seuss and displayed them in the lobby. Love these!

Stained Glass

2nd grade created these "stained glass" artworks for our Renaissance unit way back in.....November?? I am behind. 0_o

 These are page protectors cut down. We used colored Sharpies to add our patterns. Don't they look great on the windows? :)

Surreal Animals

Inspired by Dali's elephants, 4th grade created surreal animals from clay. They could be regular animals or mixed up animals, but they had to have long legs. 

Dali's Space Elephant Statue

These were a blast to make and the results are adorable! Googlely eyes make everything great, right? 

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