|
|
K - Hands with Bouquet
(28 art)
from Feb 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Inspired by Picasso's painting of the same name, students learned how to draw a hand and about organic shapes by creatin ...
|
|
|
|
|
3 - Sandpaper Prints
(48 art)
from Feb 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students looked at modern art by Paul Klee and discussed modern and abstract art and the art elements. Inspired by Klee, ...
|
|
|
|
|
K - Line Sculpture
(30 art)
from Feb 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students used two-dimensional line to create a three-dimensional sculpture. After talking about different kinds of lines ...
|
|
|
|
|
5 - Radial Prints
(68 art)
from Feb 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
After looking at eamples of radial symmetry, students created a print block with one-quarter of a radial design. Then th ...
|
|
|
|
|
3 - Valentine Notan
(61 art)
from Feb 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students looked at examples of notans - a blance of light and dark - created from cut paper. Then using a heart as a sta ...
|
|
|
|
|
4 - Double Print
(71 art)
from Jan 2010, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students viewed and discussed modern abstract art by Miro, Klee, and Kandinsky. Using line, shape, balance, rhythm, and ...
|
|
|
|
|
5 - Postage Stamp: Holiday Special Edition
(57 art)
from Dec 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students learned about the elements that make a good design and were given the task of becoming a graphic designer hired ...
|
|
|
|
|
1 - Starry Night
(36 art)
from Dec 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students looked at Vincent van Gogh's use of line to create movement in "Starry Night". They talked about cities and arc ...
|
|
|
|
|
4 - Texas Wildflowers
(67 art)
from Dec 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students learned about Georgia O'Keeffe and her artwork. They used their knowledge of O'Keeffe's flower paintings to ins ...
|
|
|
|
|
3 - Still Life with Fruit and Vegetables
(44 art)
from Dec 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Third grade students looked at a variety of still life images including some by Cezanne, Janet Fish, and Floris van Dyck ...
|
|
|
|
|
K - Primary Color Boogie-Woogie
(23 art)
from Dec 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
After looking at Broadway Boogie Woogie by Mondrian, students used primary colors and geometric shapes to create a "boog ...
|
|
|
|
|
K - Color Mix Creatures
(24 art)
from Dec 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students used primary colors to create secondary colors in a "splat" image. Then they used lines to turn their "splat" i ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
K - Barnyard Animals
(30 art)
from Dec 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students experimented with mixing primary colors to create secondary colors and use them to paint a background. Then use ...
|
|
|
|
|
1 - Totem Creatures
(45 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students created a symmetrical creature based on the Native American Totem pole and colored it using complementary color ...
|
|
|
|
|
2 - Rousseau's Jungle
(71 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
After learning about Henri Rousseau and his jungle paintings, students created a jungle scene with organic shapes and ov ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5 - LARGER than Life
(55 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
What makes a painting “good”? Fifth grade students learned about the basic elements that make an interesting composition ...
|
|
|
|
|
1 - Penguin Prints
(47 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students read A Penguin Story by Atoinette Portis to get an idea of a penguin environment. We talked about cool colors a ...
|
|
|
|
|
4 - Action Images
(68 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
After learning about the work of Frederic Remington, fourth grade students explored ways to create the illusion of actio ...
|
|
|
|
|
5 - Texas Landscape
(61 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Inspired by the use of perspective in Grant Wood’s Midnight Ride, fifth grade students learned about one-point perspecti ...
|
|
|
|
|
1 - Pumpkin Patch
(43 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
First grade artists looked at real pumpkins to create contour line drawings. They learned the size of the pumpkin can ma ...
|
|
|
|
|
3 - Calaveras
(57 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Third grade students looked at the human skeleton and identified some of the big bones in the body. They learned that yo ...
|
|
|
|
|
3 - Batik Landscape
(59 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students looked at Grant Wood's "Fall Plowing" to analyze how things appear to be in the distance in a painting. They di ...
|
|
|
|
|
K - Van Gogh's Trees
(28 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Inspired by van Gogh’s use of line to create movement, kindergarten artists used line to create tree branches that stret ...
|
|
|
|
|
2 - Native American Portraits
(67 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students learned about the art of portraiture by looking at the work of American painter George Catlin. They learned the ...
|
|
|
|
|
K - Clown Portraits
(29 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Kindergarten students looked at "Circus" by Lois Elhert to identify geometric shapes and to get an idea of how shapes ca ...
|
|
|
|
|
5 - Pop Art Portrait
(58 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Fifth grade students looked at two self-portraits by Andy Warhol and then created a 2 x 2 grid for their repeated self-p ...
|
|
|
|
|
3 - One Line Portraits
(65 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students looked at portrait examples by Pablo Picasso before beginning their own abstract self-portrait. Using only one ...
|
|
|
|
|
1 - Prehistoric Drawings
(48 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
First grade students looked at pre-historic cave paintings to explore contour line and pattern. The students then used c ...
|
|
|
|
|
4 - Illuminated Initial
(69 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
After studying the artwork in the Book of Kells, fourth grade students created their own illuminated initial using patte ...
|
|
|
|
|
2 - Action Portrait
(66 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
After viewing images by Keith Haring and learning that the human body can be measured as 7.5 heads tall, second grade st ...
|
|
|
|
|
1 - My Portrait
(40 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Gilbert
Students learned that artists have unique styles and used thier own unique style to draw a self-portrait.
|
|
|
slideshow
