2D vs 3D Andy Warhol Soup Cans

5th Grade is finally finishing up their Andy Warhol 2Dimensional turned 3Dimensional Soup Cans! They really turned out great! Below are some pictures of student artwork from Mrs. Donaker's 5th grade class at Conesville! Wonderful job! :) I'm also super excited to be continuing on to a Georgia O'Keeffe water color study with 5th grade to welcome spring!

For this lesson, students were inspired by Andy Warhol to come up with a unique, creative, Campbell Soup name. I encouraged students to think outside the box (see teacher sample)! Next, students watched, discussed, and compared artwork of Warhol's together in groups after watching an inspiring video, introducing students to the artwork and life of Warhol. The classroom discussed the Pop Art Movement (What makes something popular?! What does Pop Art look like?), as well as an unfamiliar art process: printmaking. However, with this project students didn't get the full experience of printmaking. But, they did create "print like" transfers using a graphite pencil process to replicate the same, detailed cursive Campbell's font from a copied print.

Students also discussed how math is frequently used in the artworld. In order for every student to make "print-like" replicas of Andy Warhol's Soup Can prints, students were asked to measure specific dimensions for the background of their compositions. Therefore, there was an equal amount of space around the can, as well as the size of the can stayed the same. Students also discussed what the difference was between 2Dimensional art and 3Dimensional art.

We had a couple of hiccups and changes to this project along the way. Originally I wanted students to paint the text "Campbells" with white paint. However, with the amount of time ticking away and the lack of comfort students had with painting, I felt it was a better step forward to approach the white of the text with white oil pastel. Students outlined their print transfers and filled them in neatly with oil pastel and they came out great!

Check out some of the photos below!

Teacher Sample 

1st Grade Shaving Cream Starry Night

Teacher Sample

Spring is finally here and the art room is smelling a bit like shaving cream! My first grade students have been fascinated by Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night to create an artwork that's all about movement! So far, we have discussed how to draw movement, Vincent Van Gogh's painterly style, and history. Students also discussed what they thought they saw in the Starry Night (Is that a bush? A castle? Fire?!...Are those crashing waves or hills?! Did Van Gogh really see the sky like that?!) , which led to another discussion about opinions and art. It was really interesting hearing what everyone had to say! 

On the first day, students also had the responsibility to work on their own, following my visual step by step instructions on how to create stars with movement using paper, glue, and markers, replicating Van Gogh's Style! As students were working, I pulled aside a few students at a time to create movement with watered down blue tempera paint and (my favorite) shaving cream! Students sprinkled a few dots of paint on the cream, swirled it with the handle end of a paint brush using large circle motions, pressed their paper gently on top, and scrapped off the access cream to reveal a wonderful white and blue marble painting. They came out great! 

I will post some finished work in Keene Awesome Artists soon! 

Have a wonderful day :) 

Mr. Vincent

It's official! The weather is warming up! (But, I'm sure now that I've said that the weather will probably drop below zero...) I'm excited to show you the next couple of projects students will be working on.

3rd Grade Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night Paintings

Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters and his work can easily inspire students to think and see objects differently! Students will be inspired by Vincent Van Gogh to analyze and interpret 'the impression' of objects. They will specifically be experiencing and applying Van Gogh's artistic painterly style to create movement with tempera paint and oil pastels when replicating Van Gogh's famous artwork 'Starry Night'. They will also have the opportunity to create their own towns on the hills (or crashing waves!) below.

This is a lesson I had the awesome opportunity to witness during my student teaching experience with Ginger Pacer (Paint Brush Rocket), who very often is my inspiration to think outside the box when it comes to creating elementary art lessons. I haven't had the chance to teach the lesson yet myself, so I'm super excited I get to share this opportunity with my 3rd graders. I know they are going to LOVE it! Plus, we just got in our new paint brushes that I purchased using our Square 1 art money! So thank you to everyone who participated in that fundraiser! They will definitely help students create quality artwork without the struggle of the old, deteriorated paint brushes we were previously using.

Teacher Sample...Just realized my crescent moon is backwards! :)

6th graders are currently finishing up their Egyptian portraits, adding their names in hieroglyphics on a black border. Next, students are studying 3D art! Sadly, students do not have the opportunity to create a ceramic piece of artwork this year because of budget costs and there is only 1 kiln between the two elementary schools. But, that will not prevent me and my students from creating any 3D work! 6th grade students were asked to bring in cereal boxes to construct 3D letters using paper mache. Below is an example of a letter I've created.

Teacher Sample - Van Gogh Style

Please make sure 6th grade students bring in flattened cereal boxes with their names on them by March 24th! Thank you :)

Also, a tentative art show will be May 1st and 2nd at River View High School. More details to come!

Keep creating!