Still Life: 4th Grade

I have so many new students at my school this year that I was really wanting to see where their drawing skills were.  My kids have always loved picking "fruits & vegetables" from my stash of still life objects....so we went that direction for this first observational drawing.  I was pleasantly surprised by the skill they displayed! Check out their work.

Positive & Negative Space: 2nd Grade

I've really been thrilled with my 2nd graders Positive/Negative Space pictures!!  

2nd Grade has been a bit challenging at times, 

but I feel like they are really coming along/maturing!! 

 NEVER GIVE UP FRIENDS!!!  

It is always a joy when they surprise you!  

I thought that the water bottle was going to be a major struggle for the students, but they LOVED IT!! And the two I posted here are AWESOME.  We discussed shadows just briefly...and I showed them a few examples.  

Kandinsky Inspired Mixed Media Still Life

My student teacher jumped into painting her first week of creating her own lessons!! Pretty proud of her for doing that.  So much time management goes into painting...but this project even more so!!  They looked at Kandinsky's Concentric Circles as their background inspiration.  We used black and white paint to create an interesting...but neutral background.  They then did a simple still life...colored with crayons..cut it out..and glued it down.  We later switched to a sunflower still life & found greater success.  Who knew coloring an apple CORRECTLY would be so challenging.  And while I'm speaking about challenging...THEY COULD NOT DO A SIMPLE FOUR LINE GRID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WOW!!!  She had to actually demo it...draw a line here...draw a line here...now draw a line here...etc!  We learned from the first day's class not to take such things for granted!! ha ha  

Funny Flamingo

This post started off being about the still life drawings my students are working on this week.  However, as I started photographing them...I noticed the faces of the flamingo were all so different! 

So here are the fabulous & funny flamingo faces!!! 

This is what Mr./Mrs. Flamingo actually looked like! 

When ya run out of paper..you gotta do what ya gotta do!
So this makes him look like Daffy Duck when he gets hit in the face with something!!
LOVE IT! 

This is kind of scary when you are flipping through all the profile flamingos...

and then this dude is staring at you!

I don't know...maybe you all aren't as amused.  They made me smile/laugh...and I wanted to share it with you!!  The variety is crazy...which I'd really love...if it wasn't a still life & they were suppose to look like the original.  

Oh well...at least my kids are all original!!!!!!! 

 HAVE A GREAT DAY!!