Mixed Media Portrait

A wonderful mixed media portrait project which I found HERE on the art blog: Art Room Britt.

See my previous post about this lesson HERE.

This was done with a class of grade 4-6 students.

 

Album Art Project

This was a lesson I saw floating around on numerous art sites for a while now. I knew my Grade 7-9 kids would love this lesson as they always listen to Spotify when they're working in class. 

I started off with a brief slideshow about album cover art, showing some of the historically famous ones. Then, they had time to research which album cover they would do. They had the choice of e-creating their favourite album art or designing their own. I would say all of the class chose to copy one. 

I first provided them with a practice sheet to try out different ideas. 

(just Google 'playlist blank template, etc)

I had pre-printed a blank template (Google for free ones) onto 11 x 17" photocopy (tabloid size) paper.

I didn't want to have to have the kids use rulers and all that- but you could absolutely do that. This is just a time saving step, plus it looks pretty professional.

They could use any media they wanted, keeping in mind the paper is pretty thin. 

You could also print the template onto cardstock. 

Some kids prefer using the grid method!

Once finished, I mounted them all onto larger black construction paper.

This took about two classes to complete and the kids enjoyed it!

 

NurkhiPaints Inspired Botanical Watercolours

 

Here's a lovely pen and watercolour project inspired by Vancouver artist  Nurkhi Paints.

I previously posted about this project HERE.

We watched some of her Instagram reels to get an idea of her process first.

Then students looked online for images of botanicals. Clip art images are a good starting point.

They sketched out just a contour drawing onto watercolour paper.

Then used the wet on wet technique to paint the plants. They needed to use at least two colours.

Once dry, they added parallel line work within each leaf using micron pens.

 

Some finished Grade 7-9 paintings:

Mixed Media Insect Drawings

This is a really cool lesson using transparency sheets, sharpies and paint pens layered over a tissue paper collage background.

I saw the lesson on the fabulous Talley Street Artists Instagram account.

I taught this project to a mixed class of Grade 4-6. They were all successful with it.

First class: create a tissue paper collage using watered down glue and tissue paper onto cardstock (it should match the size of the transparency film). Let dry. These curled up ALOT during the drying process and was a huge pain both flattening them and trimming them!! Allocate time for that.

I had pre printed out a few sheets of a variety of insect clip art. Students chose one and traced a variety of sizes on insects onto the transparencies using sharpie. They were so excited to be able to trace, lol.

Then they chose three paint pens and added lines and patterns, dots and outlines.

Then we taped them onto their tissue paper background using double sided clear tape.

They look so cool!! This project's a keeper :) It took two 80 minute classes in total.