Mondrian Inspired Grid Drawings

Northern Lights

Materials:
- Chalk Pastel
- Black Construction Paper

Hungry Fish

Materials:

- 12" x 18" Drawing Paper

- Pencils

- Colored Pencils/ Markers/ Crayons

- Imagination!

Halloween Silhouettes

Op Art

Materials:
- Rulers
- Pencil
- Markers/ Colored Pencils
- 12" x 12" Drawing Paper

Radial Symmetry Prints

Materials:
- 12" x 12" Drawing Paper
- Watercolor Paint
- Paintbrushes
- Black Tempera Paint
- Miscellaneous Objects for Printing (Corrugated Cardboard Scraps, Forks, Corks, Bottle Caps, etc.)

Trying to warm up!

 Materials:
- 9" x 12" drawing paper
- 9" x 6" drawing paper
- markers or colored pencils
- rulers
- pencils
- gluestick
- coffee mug tracer (optional)

Kandinsky Color Theory

 Materials:
- Oil Pastels
- Rulers
- 12" x 18" Drawing Paper

Gung Hay Fat Choy

Materials:
- Pencil
- Glue
- Scissors
- Yarn
- Construction Paper Strips (about 1" x 6")
- Scrap Construction Paper
- Black 12" x 18" Construction Paper

Printmaking With Water Soluble Markers

Materials:
- Drawing Paper (I used 3- 9" x 6" per student)
- Styrofoam (also 9" x 6")
- Pencils
- Watersoluble Markers
- Trays
- Water
- Rolling Pins
- Wooden Spoons/ Printmaking Paddle? (I forget what they're called... eep)
- Newsprint
- 9" x 9" Construction Paper
- 3DO's
- Gluestick
- Tape

Elizabeth Murray

This was a fun little lesson my long term substitute did on artist Elizabeth Murray. Murray is a painter who used bright, bold colors, and interesting shapes. Murray’s distinctively shaped canvases break with the art-historical tradition of illusionistic space in two-dimensions. Jutting out from the wall and sculptural in form, Murray’s paintings and watercolors playfully blur the line between the painting as an object and the painting as a space for depicting objects.

Ani Hoover

Ani Hoover is a contemporary artist from St. Joseph, Missouri who now resides and works out of Buffalo, NY. Influenced by the impressionistic work of Vincent Van Gogh, she has cultivated a body of work all about color. The fourth grade students looked at her work and discussed what it could mean. How do the colors make you feel? How would you feel if you were as crowded as the circles? What do you see? They looked at the repeating circles in her paintings and learned about concentric circles. Painting their own concentric circles, they were arranged as one large collaborative piece.

Doodle Quest

Recently I was asked to review a game called "Doodle Quest." On a "ketchup" day with my 4th graders, the students who were all caught up with their work were able to try the game out for me. They loved it!

Background, Middleground, Foreground

Materials:
- Tagboard
- Colored Pencils / Markers
- Scissors
- 3DO's

ValenDINEs

Materials:

- Paper

- Oil Pastels

- Pencil

- Jim Dine references

Turkey Feathers

Materials:
- Construction Paper
- Scissors
- Glue / Gluesticks
- Feather Tracer

Monster Collabo

Materials:
- Drawing Paper
- Crayons / Markers / Colored Pencils
- Clay
- Paint / Glaze
- 2 groups to collabo with (preferably one older, one younger)

Paper Plate Tree Weavings

Materials:
- Chinet Paper Plates
- Pencil
- Tempera Paint
- Yarn
- Scissors

Shaded Pumpkins

Materials:
- Oil pastels
- Drawing Paper
- Background Construction Paper (optional)

Towel Paper Roll Trees

Materials:
- Toilet Paper/ Towel Paper Rolls
- Tempera Paint
- Glue