5th Grade Bald Eagle Oil Pastel Drawings

Fifth grade students these bald eagle flag drawings to celebrate Veteran's Day.  They were given a piece of black construction paper and then drew a partial bald eagle on one side or the other and added the flag stripes with pencil.  They were allowed to look at several examples of bald eagle photographs for this.  Next, they traced over the pencil lines with white school glue and let the artwork dry overnight.  Using oil pastel, they colored between the glue lines (and let me tell you that we went through a TON of white and red oil pastels.  Lastly we added a subtle shadows and shading around the head of the eagle.

2nd Grade Fall Trees

Another huge thank you to my student teaching supervising teacher for the inspiration for this project.  Second grade students studied the Elements of Art Color and Space for this artwork.  Using size variation and overlapping, they created the illusion of space.  The details were colored with crayons, the background with watercolor paints, and the leaves with sponge-painted tempera in warm colors.  This is one of my favorite projects to do with second grade because they are so successful! 

1st Grade Story Quilts

This is a project I developed while studying to become an art teacher, and it quickly became one of my favorite projects to do because I get to know a little more about the students in the process!  The students learned about the artist Faith Ringgold and her painted story quilts.  After reading her book Tar Beach, the students came up with a memorable and true story about their lives and then drew a picture of that story without using words.  The students then used wallpaper sample scraps to create a "quilted" border.  I love hearing the students stories and seeing them transformed into an artwork!

6th Grade Clay Gargoyles

6th Grade Surrealism & Perspective