Mounts

But fifth-graders made papier-mâché animal head/monster heads this year for the first time.   We mounted them they look amazing.   The kids had such a wonderful time doing them.  I played around with many different ways of how to color them I painted at mine it was practice. Then we went with covering them with tissue paper. 

Many failures with great height

I did a sculpture project where all they could use is newspaper and tape.  I shows them how to roll the paper.  I told them that they could make any geometric form and that it had to be as talk as me.  5'8ish.   And that is all I told them. I let them go at it.  They worked in groups of 4 and they all started out rolling paper then the building started.   Many of the groups built cubes.  Which after sitting a week at all fell apart.  Some groups learned from that and some didn't.  It was really neat to watch them work on this.  

I asked them it they liked doing this project.  I was scared that they didn't because of all the failure.  But must of them loved it.  One of my students thought art was just drawing and painting.  He had no clue you could build things and call it art.   I was very proud of all my student in that 5th grade class.  I will get a few more pictures in the next few day.   

Britto Animals

This was my 5th grade project.  We first talked about who Britto was and what type of art he made.  

Then we made a background.  With all my 5th grades I changed it up every time I did the project.  To try and figure out which way would look the best. Ally were a crayon resist just different lines.  

So I wanted to know what my student knew about the color wheel. So I gave them a little color wheel pretest.  To see what color groups we need to work on.  So we draw are Britto style animal and divided it up into alest 8 parts   One for each color groups we talks about. Then we colored them in using the color groups with oil pastels which all students love.  Outline with black and then glued onto the background.  

First time doing this project. I think it was a great success.  

Thanks for tuneing in to my messy art room. 

Student plan.

One of my 5th graders say to me a while back "I would like to plan are next art project".  So I said go for it. I told here she would have to come one with a great plan, all the steps for the lesson, and what we need to make it.  

So she did that with a little help from some of her other classmates.  They want to take a famous painting and make it larger.  

So we figured out the math, made grids, cut the big paper.  Then got to work. 

We chose "The Figure 5 in Gold". By Charles Demuth

It was neat to see them work. People that had pieces next to each other work together to make sure there lines would match up. Others did not and that was ok.  

I think they did really good.   

Packing portraits

Ok let me start out this was one of the easy projects this year for me to teacher. But one of the most challenging projects for them. I told my 5th graders that they were going to make a selfportrait. They had to use all there prior knowledge to make it. Which they have because I do selfportrait with the other grades.
There were rules to this project. I gave them one piece of black paper to work on.
1. They could only use the packing materials that were in my box.
2. The only tools they could use are there hands. (no scissors) And they could use glue.
I will tell you what a lot of my students thought this was one of the must fun projects they did this year. It made them think about what they were doing and they also had to be great problem solvers.
I think they turned out wonderful.
Please let me know what you think.

5th grade one point perspective under the sea

Well this is another great pinterest finds and also a spin on one point perspective. We did the drawing in pencil. Then outline in sharpie. It keep my 5th graders guessing what it was going to be until we painted all blue. Some of the figured it out. Then we draw sea life and colored that in with color pencil and glued them on. It was something different then the city.

Well like I said I found this on pinterest, but here is the link from where it really came from. http://www.onceuponanartroom.com/
Thanks so much Chani for the great project

Dot day update

Well here are some of my student work. They really enjoyed using the tape a lot.

Dot day.

Well we are celebrating international dot day. My 5th graders are making different types of dots using colored masking tape. That has been sitting around the art room for a few years. The kids love using the tape. I will be post more pics as they get them done.

5th Grade One Point Perspective Monster Mouth

Well here it is my lastest One Point Perspective project Monster Mouth.  I love it.  My students did a great job getting the perspective down for the mouth. We drew the eye to the vashing point as well for an bonus.  Then came what to color the monster in with.  Well I when with crayons show my students how to get different value from them.  I thought it was going to be a good choice,  I was worng.  So of the student got it, so didnt.  but the bummer of it was they lost all that good perspective in the mouth.  I have only done this project with one 5th grade class so far..  So dont worry I just started round 2 this week.  and we are going to color them a totally different way.   So Please stay tune in... for more... 

Jean Dubuffet MEGA Animal sculpture update #1

 Alright I know that all of you have been waiting to see what these look like.. well the giraffe and bird are done elephant is still a work in progress hoping to be done soon..

5th Grade Max Beckmann self portrait

My 5th Graders were learning how to draw a face the right way. And that is fun all it in self I wanted them to learn about an artist also.  There are alot of artist that did self portraits, but their are many artist that we never really talk about Max Beckmann being one of them.  This was a fun one to do.  My students were using oil pastels on brown craft paper.  They have a few choices, they could draw themselves as Rockstars, Clowns, or Athlete.  But they must show all the facial figures and hair.  After we got done with the drawings we painted the whole project with black india ink, and then let it sit for a few mins.  During this class I dont have a sink which make the next step of the project a bit fun.. You need to wash off the ink. Everywhere the oil pastel is the ink resist. If you look at a Max Beckmann painting he has a lot of black outlines that is what we were trying to get.. The student really thought putting the ink on and washing it off was really cool.  The first picture is a drawing with no ink on it yet.. all the other picture have the ink on them..

Jean Dubuffet MEGA Animal sculpture

All right... So this is how it all got started...The other art teacher that works in my building was working with foam, and she was going to buy some more to do some project.... I told her that you can most likely get it cheeper at like Home Depot. Because they sell it 4'x8' sheets..... So a few week later we were looking at Jean Dubffet Sculpture, and we where thinking that they could be made out of foam... So we got 5 sheets of it.  We were going to make some people, but then we ran into the problem of how to get them to stand????? So we where looking at Jean art work again... and one of his sculputures look like a giraffe.  So we got to work.. making a giraffe.. and then came the elephant.  

The Giraffe.. stands about 12 feet tall, and the elephant is 8 feet long and about 9 feet tall
I think...

I will take more pictures when they are standing in the lobby of are school.... but here is what we have done so for...

QR Code Project update...

So here is what final twist of the project was... We built wall... or building around the black part of the code..

Some students did a very nice job... and some had a hard time doing it... so some had to switch to making tubes..... Oh well..

QR Code Project

1. Students make thier own QR Code using thier name. 

2.  Count out a 10x10 square on thier QR code that they found fun to look at

3. They have a 12"x12" paper and we traced the ruler to make it 1" grid to  make 100 squares

4.  Then they copy their QR code on thier paper using Sharpie. When they copy it we made line design in it, for the black squares.

I have more pictures... to come..because the project is not done... There is another twist to this project.

Qr Codes are coming....

I know that someone (a blogger) posted over the summer about QR Codes and how to use them.. or what to do with them.... Well... one art teacher I work with is doing something with them.  Which got me thinking... Which is a dangerous thing.. so watch out everyone....

Give me some time I am still working on my thoughts about them.. and when the students do them i will have pictures for all of you ok...
so please stay tune...

over and out..

5th Grade Warm and Cool Bottles

Number. 2 Update on Sock Monsters.

 Ok... This are the sock Monsters that my 5th graders made.. Not bad I thought.  They had alot of fun doing it, but it did take about 8 weeks to do.  Student where busy working all 8 weeks they were really into it.. I had more pictures but I left them at school