3rd-5th grade Art Gallery

Color-Mixing Crayons

3rd grade

What we learned:

• How to mix paint colors to get new colors!

• If you mix the primary colors (red, yellow, blue), you get secondary colors, orange, green, and purple

• How to create two of our own colors by experimental mixing

• How to add the design details of a Crayola crayon

• That these artists have amazing ideas on how to make a project much more fun and creative than the art teacher had planned! Many students tied this lesson to the book The Day the Crayons Quit and added different personalities to their crayons. They all turned out differently, just like artwork should!

4th grade

Mixed Media Owls

What we learned:

• How to draw an owl

• How to blend oil pastels together to make vibrant eyes

• “Mixed Media” means artwork that is made from more than 2 materials. For this project, we used Sharpie markers, oil pastels, watercolor and construction paper.

• Having a choice in how to finish our project leads to beautiful and interesting results!

cRaZy Birds!

5th grade

What we learned:

• Certain breeds of birds and chickens have “crazy hair” called a crest. And that they are fun to draw!

• How to draw eyes and a beak

• How to blend two analogous colors using chalk pastels for an interesting background

• How to make a variety of lines in layers to create the crest & feathers using oil pastels

*If these don't make you smile, I don't know what will!

1-Point Perspective City drawing

5th Grade

After learning about 1-point perspective (a drawing technique used to make something look 3-dimensional), practicing and brainstorming, the 5th graders created their own fun & imaginative cities!

3rd grade

Crayons

What we learned:

• How to blend paint colors with black and white to make highlights and shadows

• How to make a good color choice for the background by looking across the color wheel from our crayon colors

• How to add the final black and white details with oil pastels

Sunflower Paintings

Inspired by the incredible Vincent van Gogh

5th grade

What we learned:

• How to draw “loose”sunflowers that show movement in the style of van Gogh

• How to draw petals that overlap, twist and turn

• How to choose colors that contrast and complement each other, just like van Gogh did in his painting Starry Night by using blues & purples to complement the yellows & oranges

• Interesting facts about van Gogh’s life

Fall Landscape Collage

4th grade

What we learned:

• The 3 layers of a landscape are foreground, middleground and background

• How to create a ‘faded’ look with watercolor paints so that the sky gets lighter toward the horizon

• How to draw a 3-dimensional house

• How to create painted paper with textures

• How to draw fall trees in different styles

• How to create a collage!

Collage- artwork made with a variety of paper