The students painted a white sheet of paper and the following week, traced a circle and used the rest of their paper to create the rays of the sun. They needed to cut out circles for the eyes, but some students chose to add more. The finishing touches were added with sharpie, like always!
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Our art show, VIVA!, will showcase many aspects of Mexican culture and art, so of course we could not forget the great Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera! I began this lesson by teaching the students about Frida and Diego, their significant works and their impact on the art world in Mexico. The Detroit Institute of Arts had a special exhibition during March - July of this year on these two artist and their time spent here in Detroit while Diego painted the industry murals at the DIA. I shared my book of the exhibition with the kids as well as a few other books. 3rd grade worked on mini portraits of these famous artists while 5th grade worked in groups to complete extra large portraits.
In preparation for our fall show, students at the elementary and high school levels are studying and drawing the same photos of objects and scenes from Mexican culture to show student development and growth.
Here are a few examples of the elementary progression. Sub plans are always tough, but these travel brochures turned out awesome! The students needed a large picture on the front and the name of their chosen location. The inside needed to include a few attractions with pictures. And the back included an artist portrait.
On their first day in the art room, kindergarten and 1st grade did lines and patterns in crayons then painted them the following week. We watched this video of Tomie DePaola's The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, and I challenged the students to find the teepees during the story. They cut their paintings into teepee shapes, added the sticks on top and painted the opening for a door as a finishing touch!
We began by discussing the differences between Folk art and Fine art. The students studied the animals and scenes in a few bark paintings I brought back from Mexico. The students were given idea sheets with some animals that are commonly found in Mexican folk art like coyotes, roosters, iguanas, donkeys, etc. During the first class period, the students drew their animals in pencil, no details yet. Then painted them one color and did a 1-2 color border. This coyote is howling upward at the moon! When they came back the following week, they outlined and added details to the animals, backgrounds and borders with oil pastels. The results were beautiful!
To start the year, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade worked together to create paintings to look like Mexican textiles for our Mexican Art Show in October. The 3rd Grade students started by painting bands or rows of color, 4th added shape patterns and 5th added the finishing details.The following week, the 5th grade classes worked in their groups punching holes at each of their "rugs" and tied yarn to the ends to give the rugs a more realistic look! These rug painting will be on display at our fall art show, VIVA! Each piece is a collaboration of 15 students from 3 different grade levels-- pretty great for their 1st day in the art room!
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AuthorHello! I'm Ms. Trapani and I have been teaching art at Lindemann since 2010. This blog is to share all the wonderful things that happen in the Lindemann art room! Archives
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