Tag Archives: Painting

Ola! Mexican Guitars!

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Art Education

Grade 2/3:  Drawing and Painting Guitars (2 double period classes) To start, I brought in a couple of visuals.  Some pictures of brightly coloured Mexican guitars, along with the equally colourful musicians who play them AND my friend Brian’s custom … Continue reading →

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Tunnels of Weightlessness?

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Art Education

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 →

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Class Letters

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Art Education

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 →

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Why is Blue Dog, Uh, Blue?

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Art Education

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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A Patchwork Landscape

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Art Education

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 →

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Drawing & Painting Still Life

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Art Education

The Grade 7/8’s Construct a Still Life Bring in a favourite object, I said.  When it came to class time, very few remembered to (Aaagh – even with reminders), so it became rather a collection of hastily grabbed objects.  Too … Continue reading →

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Everybody Digs Jasper Johns (and Bill Evans)

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Art Education

Grade 2/3 Colour Wash Alphabets I have to say that these are some of my favourite results in teaching art so far.  That may be oversimplifying it, but I just never get tired of these ones!  You may notice that … Continue reading →

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The More of Paper Masks

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Art Education

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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Grade 2/3 Cityscapes

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Art Education

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 →

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Grade 2/3 Portraits

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Art Education

Student Portraits In conjunction with some self-reflective writing they were doing at the time, I had the grade 2/3’s do ‘head shot’ portraits of a partner in class.  I started things off by demonstrating with a portrait of their teacher, … Continue reading →

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