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Category Archives: Grade 4/5 Art Projects
Enter, Notan.
Grade 5: Flipping the Positive and Negative With Notan I recently purchased this book, Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design and even though I have so far only taken a rather cursory look at it – I found the images … Continue reading
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Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Pattern
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More Zendalas, Please
Grade 5: Exploring Pattern with Zendalas This was a quick lesson to fill in with the grade 5’s as the 4’s were working on their Medieval castles. There was less instruction on my part than the last time I taught … Continue reading
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Tagged Doodles, Drawing, Line Drawings, Zendalas
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Dabbling in Surrealism
Grade 5: Learning Surrealism, Constructing Pictures Session 1 I came to the class with an example of a picture I had created using magazine cutouts in the style drawing from an art and cultural movement known as Surrealism, that began … Continue reading
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Tagged Assemblages, Cut-paper Collages, Surrealism
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Class Letters
Grade 5 Paper Mache Letters with Action! Painting This was a project that took quite a while to complete, but the process was a good one, and had some fun moments along the way … We began with building the … Continue reading
Why is Blue Dog, Uh, Blue?
I had to order the book from the States, but I knew I wanted to do an art project based on George Rodrigue’s Why is Blue Dog Blue?. Such a fun book. His artwork illustrations just get you wantin’ to bust open … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Painting
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Drawing Cylinders, Drawing Snakes
Grade 5 / Drawing Snakes The idea was to draw cylinders using a light source to render them 3 dimensional. So, why not make them snakes? Snakes coming out of the frame, even?! (Psst. I found the idea at Fine … Continue reading
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Tagged Drawing, Oil Pastels
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Exploring Op Art / Doin’ the Wave
Grade 5 Op Art The grade 5’s were really jazzed to get at some art that messes with optics (they had been seeing some examples that I had posted on the board). This one required some concentration on their part, but … Continue reading
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The More of Paper Masks
Grade 5 Paper Masks: Taking it Further Part II. Class 5 & 6. Just when they thought they were finished with masks, I had them work with them one more time. The teacher and I paired up the students, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Drawing, Oil Pastels, Painting
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Paper Masks and More
Grade 5 Paper Masks: Symmetry, Repetition, Layering Part I. This was an extremely popular project I did with two classes in two schools. It spanned several week’s work, but the processes and results were well worth the investment of class … Continue reading
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Tagged Assemblages, Sculpture, Upcycle/Recycle
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Exhalation
Grade 5 Line Project/Exhalation About the same time as the Grade 6’s at St. Michael were wielding umbrellas, I had this class pantomime blowing/spewing/singing/laughing/calling: exhalations! As with the other class, I photographed them in two different poses, suggesting they think … Continue reading
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Tagged Line Drawings, Self Portraits
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