Art projects for parent contract

On this page you will find:

several art projects you may want to use for your fine arts contract. You will find a general description, videos, models, and iilustrations of each art activity.

CAM 4 Yearlong Art slideshow and June Project Fair

Each year at the beginning of June all of CAM has a celebration of learning. During this event, students show off their art projects. Here is the link to upload a picture of one, two , no more than three of your art projects you have completed this year. As you complete an art project show it off here so all students and parents can see it. You can change your choice of what you want to show throughout the year. By June you should have one no more than three art projects to show in this slide show.

Here is the link to uoload your art photo on the class google slides.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AY2ZS_3egzEvvqaMPFXNGyOlzXCxFHwJDberBESB4QY/edit#slide=id.p

Also, please keep a portfolio of all your art projects so that you can select your favorite to display on our classroom wall for the June Project Fair.

ART State test

Every fourth grade student in the district must take the state art assessment. There are two parts: The artwork and the written assessment. Please have your student make a copy and take this test in January. You may teach all the necessary skills before they take the test. Please have your student bring it to school in January. I will score it.

The Students score will be based on the following criteria:

Did they add the following in their art:

foreground, middle ground, background
features in their foreground, middle ground, and background
4 ways to show depth
horizontal, verticle, and diagonal lines
positive and negative space

Could answer correctly each question about their art project.

CBA art.pdf

Drawing lessons: Let's Draw

This is a fine little booklet with 36 lessons teaching students how to draw. It lesson teaches a specific skill. This is a great little book.

1745_001.pdf

1745_018.pdf

Designing an Art cover

Students need an art book or an art portfolio. Here is an idea for the cover of their art book.

Art cover directions

Draw your face - a half circle with pencil. Add a neck and shoulders. Add one eye, one eyebrow half a nose and half a mouth, and one ear. fill in your features like long hair, glasses, earrings. Write your name in possessive form and add the word art.
Outline everything with a sharpie.
Carefully with small gentle strokes fill in your picture with colored pencils. Make the outer edges darker for contrast.

art cover.pdf

Google Style art

Students can use the word:GOOGLE or they can use their own name and create pictures that represent them.

Jungle scene

Drawing with contour lines-Jungle scene like Henri Rousseau.

Students can look up the art work of Henri Rousseau. He liked to paint pictures of jungle scenes.

Students are introduced to these new words: contour lines, foreground, middle ground, background.

Students will draw a forest, wooded area, or jungle scene that has the following elements:

- tall grass, ferns, or bushes for their foreground
- long branches of leaves and an animal hiding in their middle ground - Monkey, cat, tiger, dog, deer, etc.
- tall trees in their background.
- After drawing, they outline it in thin marker or their choice of media, yet highlighting shadow areas and areas they wanted to stand out with the thick marker.
- Use colored pencils to complete the picture. Focus: For leaf colors, think of light and shade, and emphasizing things you want to pop out. Try to use 2-3 colors in the leaves, trunk, and animals if possible.

2111_001.pdf

Cats zendoodle project

You can type in zendoodle on google and watch videos or see different patterns people use in their projects. Practice a few. Then you can choose a project of your own or you can try one of these using cats.

Zendoodle example

zendoodle cats

Cat template if you did not want to dray it on your own.

optional project by Carolyn Benjamin, art teacher at Glenwood

Starry Starry Pumpkin Night using oil pastels

In this art project, students will learn about Vincent Van Gaugh's painting, Starry Starry Night. Look him up on google and read his biography. Then see his STARRY Night painting.

You will practice learning how to make

a swirling night sky like Van Gaugh
how to draw pumpkins in fore ground, middle ground, and background
and how to show the reflection of light (the moon).
learn how to use oil pastels

Criteria: You will

put in 3-5 pumpkins - one has to be behind another.

1 moon
3-5 stars
a swirling night sky
a show light from the moon on their pumpkins.

1536_001.pdf

2523_001.pdf

How to use iol pastel lesson

How to make pumpkins lesson

Vincent Van Gaugh type swirling sky lesson

Snowman perspective

Have a square piece of paper.
Draw 4 snowmen in the 4 corners. Make sure the snowmen look as if they are looking down at you as you lay in the snow. Add facial features, hats, scarves, buttons, and snow falling.
Outline your drawing in brack sharpie.
Fill in with any media of your interest: crayons, colored pencilsm watercolor, oil pastels.

watercolor winter scene

Watercolor Winter Scene

In this art project, students will learn watercolor techniques while creating a winter scene.

They will practice learning how to

draw trees
hills and mountains
paint with watercolors

Criteria: Students will

put in at least 1 hill or mountain
3 or 5 trees
middle ground, foreground, and background
paint a sky
paint snow (blue)
paint trees

Student art sample is shown on the right side and below.

Student samples of water color winter scene. Videos show you how to do this project.

1294_001.pdf

1295_001.pdf

1296_001.pdf

Northern Lights water color winter scene

1739_001.pdf

1738_001.pdf

A Peaceful landscape scene like Gainsboroh

A Peaceful Scenery, Landscape

In this art project, students will continue to use their watercolor skills to create a peaceful landscape. This time they have choice of the scenery.

Criteria: Students will

have a mountain
river or lake
tress, shrubs
rocks
1-3 animals or humans
make the landscape large ( a big world!) and the animals small in comparison.
use foreground, middle ground, and background

student sample

a painting by Gainsbourough

Painting spring tulips

Watch the videos and make your own spring tulips

Georgia OḰeefe flowers

In this project students will learn how to create flowers like Georgia O'Keefe. Here are 3 student samples. Students can find a flower they like on the internet and use it as a model to copy. Below this are several painting painted by Georgia OḰeefe.

0784_001.pdf

0785_001.pdf

0733_001.pdf

Video about Georgia OḰeefe

Art lesson inspired frpm the work of Geogia O'Keefe.

Van Gaugh style fish in water

Lesson on how to draw koi fish

2567_001.pdf

Art sample of koi fish in water

2538_001.pdf

www.howtodrawanimals.net/how-to-draw-a-fish

Paint animals with big eyes

0689_001.pdf

0690_001.pdf

Projects using paper -Animal collage

2282_001.pdf

Animal Collage

In this art project you will choose an animal from your computer to draw.

Make it large enough to fill the page.
Choose a colored background.
Draw the animal shape over the colored paper.
Find different kinds of paper to fill in your animal: notebook paper, tissue paper, newspaper, magazine paper.
Tear, not cut, the paper in the shapes you want to make your animal look good and have character. Glue them on one by one.
Make sure to add features like wiskers, ears, eyes, fur, etc.
Add you name at the bottom as the artist

Picasso's Style Portrait

In this art project students will learn about Picasso and his art. Students will see his paintings he created with his girlfriend as the model.

Students will use paper to create an abstract profile and front pose of a person they know (themselves, mom, dad, etc.)

Criteria: Students will

cut colored paper
create a bust of a person having one side of the face in profile with the following: hair, ear, eyebrow, eye, nose, mouth, and chin
and have the other side that is the front pose have the following: hair, ear, eyebrow, eye, nose, mouth, chin.
Students should include, but it is not mandatory: hats, caps, earings, buttons on shirt - anything to make the clothes and person more interesting
One side of the face is in 1 color. The other side of the face is another color. The background is a third color.

Here is a picture of Picasso's painting of his girlfriend and a student's abstract profile and video instructions.

Here is a video on how to draw your portrait step by step. She then uses watercolor. You can use paper or watercolor.

animal closeup face

To make the animal face do the following:

Get a large piece of white paper.
Take markers and doodle all over the paper with several colors
Use watercolors and paint several colors all over the paper.
Let your paper dry, then tear your paper in thin long strips.
Get a second piece of paper and begin gluing the strips to cover the paper. Start from the middle of the paper and glue strips outward from there. See the models.
Watch the videos and make the eyes of the animal you like. Glue them on.
You have your animal!

cat collage

eagle collages

Dog collage

owl collage

cat eyes samples

dog nose sample

Tessellations and crazy hearts

crazy shapes and hearts

Self Portrait like Rembrant or DiVinci

Self portrait project

Mona lisa kitty

Leonardo Di Vinci's Mona Lisa

Rembrant;s self portrait

portrait by Rembrant

Artist using math to make a portrait

2283_001.pdf

Projects using modeling clay

A whimsical scene made of clay

How to make a clay animal

Steps

Start with a lump of clay. Any sort of clay will work, though modeling clay will work best. ...
Roll a snake from the clay. ...
Break off a small piece of clay to form the head. ...
Roll the head into a ball. ...
Form arms and legs out of the snake. ...
Pose the arms and legs. ...
Form the head of the animal.