5th Grade Fall Projects Inspired by Grant Wood and Henri Matisse

American Gothic Partners

We studied artist Grant Wood and then discussed his American Gothic painting.  We thought of people and characters that could be partnered together to create our own painting.

Matisse Inspired Drawing with Scissors

We studied Henri Matisse.  We learned about his life and his art work.  We chose to create art work using his new art style of Cut-Paper.  We were impressed by the fact that Matisse created a way to continue creating art dispite his physical limitations in a wheel chair.

5th Grade Faux Stain Glass

Symmetrical Oil Pastel Stain Glass Design

We studied Frank Lloyd Wright and his geometrical stain glass windows he created for his houses.  We also looked at Comfort Tiffany's stainglass lampshades and we looked at modern stain glass windows in churches.  We discussed fuctional art and decorative art.  I had used Gustav Klimt as a decortive artist during the same period of art, Art Nouveau.  

4th Grade Watercolor Resist Leaves

FIRST PROJECTS for 2011-2012

Third Grade "Doodle Art"

This project was a review of the different kinds of lines, line direction and weight of lines.  Line is the first element in art and so I like to revisit it at the beginning of the school year.  The color scheme was not limited in this project.

 

 Fourth Grade "Bad Hair Day"

This is an old favorite I found in an art project book and many of you use.  Again it is visiting the element of line at the beginning of the year. I also limit the color scheme to warm or cool colors.  Color is also an element of art and the different color schemes were used last year.  Review is always good anytime of year.







Fifth Grade "Gustav Klimt Inspired Trees"

This project is having the students jump right in and learn about an artist and his work along with line review.  It was done in black and white because last year we didn't really visit this neutral scheme.

ART MATS

Art Mats

My students begin each year making art mats.  These are art works that they create from using their name, I put a label on with teachers name, table number, they glue onto a colored construction paper (one color for each class), and then I laminate them to use everyday all year long.  They hold their wet paintings in the drying rack or dry material they are cutting between art lessons.  We never lose art work because of a forgotten name.