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Torn Book Page Seascape Fourth Grade

4/3/2017

The following learning objectives for this project is: We can identify and create an original seascape.

Students used old out of print book pages to color with watercolor paint for the water and sky. The pages are then torn in strips to create wavy water and sky.

White and brown paper was used to draw and cut out at least three ships in three different sizes to glue onto the water to show space by placing the larger boat up front and a smaller boat nearer to the horizon line.

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Realistic/Abstract Still Life Drawing

4/13/2015

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The learning objective we covered with this project was I can exaggerate, distort or simplify features to create an abstract still life. we began by reviewing what a still life is and the objects that could make up a still life.

I asked each child to create a drawing from life of their shoe. They looked for different lines and shapes within their shoe. Then a view finder was made to focus on one small part of their shoe drawing to create an abstract piece from their realistic shoe drawing.

The drawings were outline in black permanent marker and the abstract piece was colored with a variety of markers. To finish this piece off each drawing was glued onto black paper and the view finder was taped to the realistic drawing so we could flip it up to see the original completely.

I fiound this project idea at: picasaweb.google.com

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Value Robots

9/6/2014

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This lesson focused on the learning objective, I can create light, medium and dark value with pencil. The students were asked to draw a robot and shade showing three values in each space. We then added a piece of metal tooling as a name plate for our robot. They did a great job and I'm sure you will agree. My lesson plan can be found here. My instructional Video below.

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Abstract Farm Animals in Oil Pastel

4/14/2014

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We began this work by looking at Pablo Picasso's Cubist portraits and discussed how he would show both sides of the face in one portrait. Then we practiced some of our own cubist style of portraits. We then discussed our learning objective: I can create abstract art with distortion, exaggeration or simplification. We looked for these in Picasso's portraits.
I then changed our subject matter to farm animals. We looked at a variety of historical abstract art that included farm animals and discussed if the artist exaggerated, distorted and/or simplified the animal. We looked at a few from Picasso as well. I created a Prezi that is linked here. Finally the students chose the farm animal they wanted as their subject matter and began sketching ideas on ways to abstract the animal.
When they had their drawing ready, we discussed their ideas and then they chose to redraw their abstract farm animal on black or white paper. Oil pastels were used to color in their work. I got the idea for this project from http://4.bp.blogspot.com/
My lesson plan can be found here.

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Folded Paper Radial Relief Sculpture

12/17/2013

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I haven't taught this lesson in a few years but fourth grade was working on identifying and creating a relief sculpture and it just fit. In the past I wasn't always happy with the results but this year the kids did such a great job!

We started with a square piece of paper that we folded in half four time to get an X & T crease to follow. 2" squares were used to fold in two different types of folds to create their radial sculpture. I had one student who came up with her own folds and it turned out beautiful!

I have included my instructional video below.

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Positive & Negative Snowman Collage

12/15/2013

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This lesson we were reviewing the learning objective: I can identify and use positive and negative space and I can identify and use outlines.

We began by creating a night landscape with black and gray paper. Next we created a snowman and winter trees. Then the snowman and trees were traced and cut from black paper to create a shadow or the negative space.

Finally the whole landscape with winter trees and snowman were glued onto a large white paper with the negative space create with the black trees and snowman. Thanks to Oak Hill Elementary for sharing this idea here on Artsonia.com.

This quarter I started to create instructional videos to go along with some of my lessons. I play them for each class after we go over the lesson learning objectives. These videos give me a chance to get the room set up while the students watch. It also gives each of my three classes the exact same instruction. I have included my instructional video for this lesson below.

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Kimmy Cantrell Relief Clay Masks 4th Grade

12/9/2013

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We looked at the ceramic work of Kimmy Cantrell and focused on his asymmetrical relief masks. We reviewed the definition of asymmetrical balance and relief sculpture. We compared and contrasted Cantrell's masks and the facial features. We then created paper patterns to use directly on our clay slab. We used clay tools to create impressed texture on the base of our relief mask. Then the facial features were cut out, scored and slipped then attached to the top of the base. The pieces were fired, then glazed and re-fired.

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Creepy Carrot Animation in DoInk

11/4/2013

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I began this lesson by reading the book: Creepy Carrots, by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown. It is a very cute story about a young rabbit who helps himself to carrots in a nearby patch. The carrots start to stalk the rabbit. He calls them creepy carrots but he can't get anyone to believe him they exist. The story ends well for both young rabbit and the carrot patch.

We then looked for color value and value contrast in the illustrations. I introduced color emphasis and how the carrots are the only color in the illustrations because they're the focus of the story.

I then walked the class through how to draw or illustrate in the app. We then created our carrot and then made a second layer to slightly change our carrot for the animation. Some students had enough time to create three or more layers for their carrot.

Finally we layered our background and carrot animation pieces and then tweaked the timing and path of our carrot. Below is one student example of their work. Here is a link to see all the fourth grade's Creepy Carrot animations:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC7dyhM0EVsXIFQPP3yPrm858NErCp6dR

Check the link next week for the remaining fourth grade pieces.

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Fourth Grade Seascape with Student Photo

10/28/2013

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For this piece we took our Torn Paper Value Seascape collage and photographed it. I then took a photograph of each 4th Grader in a blow up boat our after-school care program was kind enough to lend me. I couldn't find a user friendly, free "photo-shop like" app to erase the background of our photos so we used the drawing app Brushes.

We first downloaded the seascape photo into the app. Then downloaded our boat photo and sized it making sure to place it in correct proportion. (Large boat photo goes upfront in the foreground and small boat photos go in the background.)

The final step was to erase the background around our boat photo and upload our piece to Dropbox, so I could put them on Artsonia.com. Some students chose to use the drawing tool to add additional details like shark fins. This was a quick one day lesson that the kids really enjoyed.

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Fourth Grade Value Scale Torn Paper Seascape

9/30/2013

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This is one of my favorite projects. They always turn out beautiful and the kids love the paint mixing and tearing the paper.

We covered the following learning objectives with this piece:

I can use tempera paint to create a tint by adding white to a color.
I can use tempera paint to create a shade by adding black to a color.
I can create an original seascape.

One 9 x 12" paper was folded longways (like a hot-dog) in half to get two equal rectangles and one 12 x 18" paper was folded in half short-ways (like a hamburger) twice to get four equal rectangles. We then used tempera to mix and paint tints and shades of one color. We painted one rectangle just the color as is, three rectangles in three different tints and then the small paper was painted with two shades.

After the paint dried we tore each value into a strip with a slight wave to create the effect of white topped waves. I asked the class to arrange the colors in a progression of color, with the lightest at the top and the darkest at the bottom. We glued our progression onto matching construction paper and added a paper sun to complete our piece.

I found this on Artsonia many years ago. I'm sorry I don't have the name of the school.

Keep an eye out for an additional element added to our seascape coming soon.