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Category Archives: Art Education
Zendalas Across Jamaica
We are back from our travels in Jamaica, and we saw many of our friends who work so hard on the farms around us in Niagara year after year. We were welcomed by their families, visited on the road and … Continue reading
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
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects
Tagged Line Drawings, Self Portraits
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Weathering the Storm
Fall 2011 / Grade 6 Line Project Okay. Here is the start of a new year in Art at St. Michael: I took 2 pictures of each of the kids, posing in front of a blank wall with an umbrella. … Continue reading
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Tagged Doodles, Line Drawings, Self Portraits
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Doodle Hair Photo-Ops
Fall 2010 / Grade 5 Line to Doodle Self Portraits After their first line project with the stylized animals, the grade 5’s took their line templates onto a new project. I photographed each student against a white wall in a … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Line Drawings, Self Portraits
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Zendalas!
Winter 2011 / Grade 5’s meet Zentangle meets Mandala Here is a fun lesson in line exploration that the students at St. Michael took on by force! After a brief intro discussing lines, they completed their individual line templates to … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Line Drawings, Zendalas
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Lines to Doodles
Fall 2010 / Grade 5 First Line Project What is a line? Where does it stop, where does it end? What happens when you repeat them? What about when they become a symbol? I gave the students three options of … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects
Tagged Line Drawings
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Grade 2/3 Cityscapes
Drawing with Paint and Scissors Session 1: Complimentary colours, warm and cool colours, scale of buildings. With visions of Van Gogh’s skies and brushes in hand, students could choose either blue/green or yellow/orange for their sky paintings. There is something … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 2/3 Art Projects
Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Painting
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Grade 1/2 Monster Hands
Tracing a Hand Can Make a Monster The grade 1/2’s are a big class, full of enthusiasm and energy. The idea that they could draw their own creatures/monsters using the outline of their hand as a starting point caused more … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 1/2 Art Projects
Tagged Drawing
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Grade 3/4: Line Drawings go 3D!
Fall 2010 / Manipulated Line Drawings Session 1: We talked about lines and doodles and graffiti and patterns … and then we got to work! The students started with covering their large piece of white paper with swirling lines, done while … Continue reading
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Tagged Line Drawings, Pattern, Sculpture, Zentangles
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Grade 3/4 Ted Harrison Project
Fall 2010 / In the Style of Ted Harrison I showed the students some examples of Ted Harrison’s work, the way he divides the areas and shapes in his paintings, simplifying elements. We then went onto a discussion about perspective … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 3/4 Art Projects
Tagged Chalk Pastels, Drawing
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