Vincent Van Gogh Winter Forests
The lesson plan was based of Vincent Van Gogh, specifically his landscape pieces, like his Starry Night painting. In this lesson Eva talked about how Van Gogh was a famous Dutch artist, who in just ten years painted over 2,000 paintings. She also talked about how Van Gogh was famous for his bold colors and expressive brush strokes.
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Kenneth Libbrecht Inspired Snowflakes
This project wasn’t based on an artist, but instead the kids learned about a professor from the California Institute that researches the different ways that snowflakes take form and makes artificial snowflakes. The kids learned that snowflakes have radial symmetry and what radial symmetry is.
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Monet Water Lilly Ponds
Students learned about Monet, then used watercolors and tissue paper to create lily ponds!
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Laurel Burch Geometric Cats
Students used torn paper to create colorful geometric animals based on their favorite animal! They then glued their animals to a painted pattern background.
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Ted Harrison Multicolor Landscapes
By making these colorful landscapes, we were able to talk about oil resist, watercolor techniques, and foreground, middleground, and background. We started off class by demonstrating to the students what happens when you put watercolor paint on top of oil pastels. The kids were amazing at how the oil pastels repelled the watercolors!
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Romero Britto Inspired Dinosaurs
Students learned about the artist Romero Britto and created dinosaurs using pattern, repetition, and unity.
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Cityscapes
In this lesson our students learned about warm and cool colors, atmosphere, and creating depth by overlapping their buildings in their imaginary or personal environments!
Warm and Cool Cityscapes
Jim Dine Valentines
Students were shown four different ways to create valentines inspired by the art of Jim Dine
February 11th, 2017
Picasso Inspired Peace Bouquets
The students created paintings inspired by the work of Picasso, imagining that they were getting to know their new friends in Botswana by handing them a bouquet of flowers.
February 4th, 2017