Lately I've been setting up for a county-wide art show. It requires 15 - 30 pieces of student art work that are lovingly matted, labeled, and velcro'd. It's time consuming, to say the least, but this year I'm pretty pleased with my display! It boasts all 1st grade artwork because, I have to say, my 1st graders this year are awesome. Just a genuinely nice batch of kids and fearlessly creative. As such, we've been experimenting with all sorts of materials ranging from salt to melted crayons! We've have an absolute blast doing it to! It's always great when you have a group of kids that are enthusiastic, respectful, and creative all at once. It makes a lesson go smoothly with awesome results. Below are the panels of the kiddies work:
What great art! First, we have visual texture trees with a watercolor and salt background. The students used masking tape, ripping it into pieces, to create the trees. Then they painted over the trees using a wet-on-wet watercolor technique and salt. FInally, they added visual textures using pen.
There are some amazingly expressive self-portraits (ie: the one on the far bottom left), but I'm very proud of our melted crayon artwork. The artwork was inspired by the contemporary artists Eli Halpin's Summer Lightning (see below).
After discussing line quality, color, and texture we created our own compositions using tempera paint, watercolor, and melted crayon! It was a blast.
If you want to learn more about Eli Halpin and her artwork you can visit: http://elihalpin.com/home.html
Her artwork is wonderful and, obviously, I do not own the rights to any of her work. I was only using her as inspiration for what turned out to be an awesome lesson that the students loved!
Anyway, that's all for now internet! Until Sunday! Enjoy!
<3 Kate
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