Grade 3 Tropical Still-life

I enjoy teaching still-life to 3rd graders who respond very well to the lesson. We talk about perspective, overlapping, composition, breaking it into shapes and looking at values; highlights and shadows. This year we completed a Tropical still-life reflecting the theme of Grandparent's Day. I demonstrated on the white board and then asked each child to choose a neutral colored chalk and sketch out their drawing. Then we talked about color, contrast and opposites and I demonstrated coloring and blending the fruit in my still-life drawing. We spent two class periods filling the drawings with color, shadows and highlights; carefully spraying in between layers. I am proud of their drawings and success with chalk!

Grade 5 Monkey Masks

In the spirit of our Tropical themed Grandparent's Day, we sculpted monkey masks out of sculpting plaster and painted colorful monkeys! To begin, I built 20 monkey face forms with plastic molds, newspaper and tape. Then with the help of some special parents and grandparents we sculpted the masks followed by painting them the next week. We looked at images of the colorful monkeys of Central and South America for our inspiration. Check out the monkeys..they had a ball creating!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plaster Sculpted Form

 

Grade 4 Monkey paintings

Grandparent's Day is a special day of celebration at FPD; honoring Grand persons in the life of our students. The theme this year "Tropical/Island" lends itself well to student artwork. We have been working the last two months on an assortment of projects relating to this theme. These monkey paintings show off the drawing skill and the personality of my little 4th grade artists.

Grade 3 Parrots

After studying John James Audubon and his bird drawings, 3rd grade artists drew and painted tropical parrots. We observed the beautiful colors, textures and lines on images of real parrots and included the same bright colors and markings in our paintings. The students then filled in their background with a natural tropical environment. "A flock of our parrots will be displayed for Grandparent's Day reflecting this year's tropical, island theme.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4th Grade artists created Mexican inspired lizards out of clay. We began with an oval pinch pot; forming body, head and tail and then added legs. Students had the most fun painting them with bright colors and adding interesting designs!