Monet Inspired Flowers in a Vase

This is a beautiful project perfect for Mother's Day. I found it on the Instagram account of elementary art teacher Joel Scholten. @scholtenart

I made a few changes to suit older kids, as I taught this to my Grade 4-6 class.

We looked at the work of Claude Monet, noticing how he used many different colours and short brushstrokes. They painted a background for their still life using various neutral shades of tempera paint.

While their background was drying, they painted stylized roses using a q-tip and tempera paint: a colour of their choice plus white. They filled two sheets of 9 x 12" paper.

The next class, they cut out a symmetrical vase from a folded sheet of coloured paper of their choice. They glued this onto their background. 

Then they used a Q-tip and two shades of green paint to paint the greenery in their vase. The q-tips are awesome because you just throw them out after. No ore brush washing, woo hoo!!

While the greenery dries, students cut out their dried roses. I had pre-cut a bunch of corrugated cardboard squares. Glue each rose onto the cardboard and arrange on the vase and glue down.

I love how these turned out with the low relief effect!

 

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!