More Circular Design Paintings: 2nd Grade

This was my Wed. crew.  I was as happy with the finished project as a whole, but over all these were pretty good.  It is amazing how you can teach the same lesson from day to day...and the results are so vastly different.  (wait till you see Thursday's work...WOW!!!)

Fall Tree Painting: Kindergarten

This project involved a lot of prep work & a lot of me running around like a crazy man, but the results were great...and the kids loved it.  We talked about watercolor paint & its qualities.  After a demo..students went back to their seats and did a watercolor wash background.  Then we discussed tempera paint & its qualities.  I demo'ed the tree trunk & branches...then sent the students back to create.  I passed paint & new(cheapy brushes).  I've found that the black is the devil to get out of my multipurpose brushes I usually love to use for everything.  While they were working I picked up the watercolor supplies.  I then brought them up for a third demo on how to pounce their brush...and use yellow & red to make orange.  The results are beautiful!

Circular Design :2nd Grade

Can I just tell you how in love I am with these paintings!?!?! The color is AMAZING!  I am sure as the week goes on I'll be posting more of this project. 

SO WHAT IS THE PROJECT?!?

We first reviewed radial symmetry and discussed circular design.  Then I dropped the bomb...YOU WILL NOT BE DRAWING WITH A PENCIL FIRST...YOU WILL BE DRAWING WITH BLACK PAINT! 

I really enjoyed the reaction of my students when I said this.  We discussed what could be some of the issues with doing this...and worked through our fears.  The first day consisted of them "drawing" their circular design, and then receiving 2 colors of their choising to paint part of their picture.  They were told they'd be finished the work the following week with 3 more colors (so they needed to make some choices about what color goes where).  The main thing was that there had to be total coverage...NO WHITE!

TAEA CONFERENCE: Award Winners

I love that our trophy is actually a mug created by a TN artist!!!  It isn't attached to the base at all....functionally wonderful! 

TAEA STUDIO CLASS: Book Making

These first three pictures are of my fall book.  I did not add all the extra elements because I decided I want to put fall pictures of my kids in the squares.  I really enjoyed this process though, and like the elements others added in to their book(mine were just going to be seperated).  The pictures that follow are from other teachers that were in my class...appreciate them letting me show their work here on Art With Mr. E!!!

These last two elements are added into some of the other books, but I thought that they could make fun Christmas ornaments!  I'm going to have my daughter handpaint paper...then I'll turn them into ornaments for the grandparents.  Amazing how we see things differently once we have kids of our own?!?! :) ha ha 

TAEA STUDIO CLASS: Fabric Collage

So we had some amazing choices of studio classes to select from....I really had trouble deciding!  On Friday I had a 5 hour class on fabric collage.  The main thing in this is that you place tulle over the image and sew that down.  It keeps everything in place.  Not really something I'll be able to do with my students, but sure did have fun!!!  I'm thinkin' of breakin' out my sewing machine and continuing on with this.  These examples are from several of the teachers in the class with me.  Some AMAZING pieces.