The 8th grade Artist Research Project was inspired by Chicago's Cows on Parade. Cows on Parade was when local artists painted, decorated, and dressed up fiberglass cow statues, and then exhibited them around the city for several months. The 8th graders were assigned a famous artist and were each given a rubber ducky. They had to paint the duck in a way that represented the artist. Some students painted their duck in the style of the artist, while others painted their duck to look like the artist. In technology class with Mrs. Cruz the students researched the artist and created a presentation using Animoto. They also created QR codes for their presentations.
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The 2nd grade students and I read the book Giraffes Can't Dance together. They really focused on how the illustrator showed movement in his drawings of the giraffe dancing. We then learned about tints (mixing a color with white). First, they painted a white moon on their paper. We then added a little blue and painted a circle with that tint around the moon. We repeated the process adding more blue and painting another circle around the previous one creating concentric circles. Using green paint the students painted the grass. The end results were beautiful moon lit skies. Next, the students drew and colored their giraffes dancing showing movement. The giraffes were cut out and glued onto the backgrounds.
The first grade students traced a heart on two pieces of paper. They then colored each heart with different colors and different patterns. One heart was cut into a paper loom and the other was cut into strips. The first grade students then wove the paper strips making sure to keep them in order onto the loom. Creating a new heart from the two hearts.
The students in Adventures in Art created stationary with bubble printing. They used a mixture of liquid watercolor and dish soap. The students then blew bubbles into this mixture using a straw. When the bubbles started to over flow they placed their paper or envelope on top to create beautiful prints.
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