O'keeffe flowers

Second grade artists learned about the life and artwork of Georgia O'Keeffe. We talked about how her flower paintings were almost abstract because they were created from a bug's perspective--meaning they were very close up to the viewer. We cropped our flower drawings so our flowers touched all sides of the paper. We outlined in glue, after the glue dried we added color and value with pastels. Our flowers were warm colors and our backgrounds were cool colors or visa versa.

Kindergarten sunflowers

Kndergarteners studied the life and artwork of Vincent Van Gogh. We paid careful attention to his sunflower paintings and by careful observing these paintings, we created our own. We drew with sharpie, and used oil pastels to add color. We chose any colors we wanted, but had to then add white oil pastel on top of it, to create a tint of the color.

2nd grade self portraits

3rd grade radial relief prints

3rd grade still life drawing

More bunnies....ebony pencils and blending stumps

Bunnies with texture

Kindergarten artists looked at the artwork of Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer. His images of animals, like rhinos, rabbits and owls are full of different textures. We drew a rabbit, using a how to draw handout. We added texture with a blending stomp and ebony pencils. We finished the background with colored pencils.