Fish Bowls

 

1st grade artists drew fish bowls and gave their fish an environment by adding rocks, plants, and more.  They added a table top and background.  Color was added with crayon and the water was painted with a watercolor resist technique.

This lesson was adapted from the one seen at  Art for Small Hands.

 

Jim Dine Watercolors

2nd grade artists looked at this image of one of Jim Dine's paintings:

 

They used the wet-on-wet watercolor technique and each created 4 mini-paintings.

1. Paint 4, 5"x5" squares
2. Paint 4, 3"x3" squares
3. When dry, cut out hearts from smaller squares.
4. Mix and match hearts onto different larger squares and glue in center.
5. Mount on 12"x12" black construction paper.

5th Grade Fall Trees

5th grade artists students talked about perspective and that objects in the foreground are larger than those in the background.  They used the leaves of these fall trees to show perspective using watercolor.

3rd Grade Fall Landscapes

3rd Grade students learned how to draw trees and created fall landscapes using background, middle ground, and foreground.

3rd Grade Frogs

3rd grade artists read "Picasso the Green Tree Frog" paying close attention to the illustrations.  We then learned to draw frogs and used wet-on-wet watercolor technique to make them look like the pictures in the book.