1st Grade: Scarecrows
1st Grade students listened to the story, The Little Old Lady who was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams and illustrated by Megan Lloyd. Students enjoyed the illustrations and the seasonal theme of this book. I like having art projects based on literature here and there, especially for kinder and 1st. We also had a follow up discussion after reading the book-- about why farmers have scarecrows and the great purpose they have..to scare away those mischievous crows!
In Williams' story, the Little Old Lady had a helpful scarecrow for her garden in the end.
This project involved lots of mixed media. Students used oil pastels and watercolor for the face. Chalk pastels was used for the shirt. Colorful patterned fabric pieces were added to burlap hats, as well. Students also added a background for their scarecrows with oil and chalk pastels.
I love the playful and happy expressions on these scarecrow faces!
1st Grade: Monet Violet Irises
1st Graders studied Claude Monet and his beautiful impressionistic paintings of Iris flowers. We searched for different values in his paintings: light, medium, and dark violet hues. We noticed that Monet painted Irises in a number of ways and they were all lovely and awesome! His paintings seem to glisten and sparkle and we could imagine ourselves walking through his Giverny Garden in France.
1st Graders tried their hand at impressionism and painting different values of violet. Students used complementary colors (yellow and violet) to add "punch" to the painting. Students painted giant stems with green, yellow and white paint. Then they painted flowers. There was no "wrong" way to paint a flower! Students added violet sparkle paint as a final layer.
These are so lovely and I think Claude Monet would be very proud himself!
1st Grade: Lichtenstein Expressive Faces
1st Graders learned about Roy Lichtenstein, an American Pop artist in the 1960's. Lichtenstein liked to paint on a very large scale and made many paintings with characters that looked like they were from comic books. He also depicted the people in his paintings with many different facial expressions. This helped to convey what they were saying and helped to tell the story of his painting. Lichtenstein's work is fun to explore and analyze.
1st graders drew 4 different faces for this art work. Each face had a different facial expression-happy, surprised, sad/worried, and mad/frusterated. We studied how mouths appear differently according to what mood people are in. Also, people's eyebrows/eyes change as well. I think students did a great job of paying close attention to their characters facial features and depicted their expressions very well!
The background was painted with watercolor. We did do a quick review in primary/secondary colors AND I even threw in some tertiary color talk! So, students could paint their backgrounds with primary, secondary, or tertiary colors.
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