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Category Archives: Art Education
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
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Assemblages, Cut-paper Collages, Surrealism
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Pattern & Communication: Wampum Belts
Grade 6: Designing Their Own Wampum Belts The teacher asked me to do an art project that would connect with the class’s work on Canadian indigenous cultures. It had to be a relatively simple and quick lesson, as the … Continue reading
Tunnels of Weightlessness?
Grade 6: One Point Perspective meets Op Art meets Surrealism – Whaa? This was a project that served to introduce some images and ideas that were new to the class, and to combine those with knowledge from projects already completed … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 5/6 Art Projects
Tagged Assemblages, Painting, Perspective
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Juanita, Hot and Cool
Grade 3/4: Draw a Chicken; Bring On the Pastels! Session 1 Once again it was time to bring in our prettiest chicken, Juanita, to another classroom of delighted students (“We have a chicken in our class!”). This is always a show … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 3/4 Art Projects
Tagged Animals, Chalk Pastels, Drawing, Oil Pastels
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Trees of Life
Grade 2/3: Their Own Tree of Life This was a quick project near the end of the year that I put to the grade 2/3’s. I intended for them to have one more class period to complete them, but … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 2/3 Art Projects
Tagged Drawing, Line Drawings, Trees
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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
Posted in Art Education, Grade 4/5 Art Projects
Tagged Animals, Painting
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Torn Paper Portraits
Grade 7/8: Collage Portraits This project had the ability to go beyond the Art Room, and so it did. After completion of the art project, the teacher assigned research and reporting on each personality. The learning went on! To start: … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 7/8 Art Projects
Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Mosaic
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At Last, Clay in the Classroom
Grade 7 Pottery It is what I was trained in, and yet this will be the first time I have taught it in the classroom. How good it was to return to clay! I still love the wonderful cool and … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 7/8 Art Projects
Tagged Clay, Pottery
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A Patchwork Landscape
Grade 3/4 One-Point Perspective Landscapes Here is an engaging lesson in perspective that had the students enjoying the process AND the result. I began with a standard illustration of one point perspective – a road with fenceposts and telephone poles … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 3/4 Art Projects
Tagged Cut-paper Collages, Painting, Perspective, Scale
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Cardboard Abstractions
Grade 2/3 Sculpture Construction I am really likin’ this project. Definately a ‘do-again’. These are built as three dimensional pieces, but some of them look quite different and wonderful when photographed from above. This flattens the image, but I have … Continue reading
Posted in Art Education, Grade 2/3 Art Projects
Tagged Assemblages, Cardboard, Sculpture, Upcycle/Recycle
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