The Heartland Art Room

3rd grade Printed Cityscapes

3rd graders learned about the printmaking process using styrofoam, printing ink, brayers and lots of colorful paper. They repeated the printmaking steps as many times as they liked and created a city skyline with their results. I love how bright and colorful they are!

Printed Landscapes inspired by the artist Eloise Renouf

1st grade

4th grade Radial Symmetry Folded Paper Designs

Spring Tulips- Kindergarten

3D Rooms

2nd graders learned how to take a piece of paper and make a part of it 3-dimensional. They got to turn the 3D piece of paper into anything they would like. I love how creative these kids are!

5th grade Paper Folding Radial Designs

6th grade ceramics projects

6th grade students were given the choice to create a "creature" or a pot for a plant... or to combine the two. I love how creative they were!

Spring Tulips- 1st grade

These artists have been working on being able to spot the difference between a landscape, portrait, genre painting and still life. Then we created our own still lives of tulips on each table. Then with some simple drawing instructions, 1st graders created these beautiful watercolor paintings!

6th grade Paper Folding Radial Designs

5th grade Solar System Drawings

Heather Galler-Inspired Spring Bouquets

2nd graders learned about the folk artist Heather Galler and created flower bouquets in her bright, colorful style!

3rd Grade Self-Portraits

"The Colors of Us" Self-Portraits

2nd graders read the book "The Colors of Us" by Karen Katz and got to try mixing their own skin color with paint!

Narrative Paintings Inspired by Marc Chagall

Kindergarteners learned about the artist Marc Chagall and his unique paintings. They learned that Chagall was a Narrative artist. Narrative art always tells a story-- either real or imagined. They had a blast coming up with stories (real or imagined!) and painting them! I loved getting to walk around the room and hear their explanations!

Renoir-Inspired Watering Cans

3rd graders learned about the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and what Impressionism is. They looked at the painting "A Girl with a Watering Can" and learned how to draw their own watering can using oil pastels and liquid watercolors.

Ted Harrison-Inspired Northern Lights

Kindergarten

The Kindergarten artists learned about the Canadian artist Ted Harrison and how he lived in the Yukon for much of his life. He loved painting the Northern Lights and using lots of bright colors. So we created our own Northern Lights background and added adorable polar bears in the foreground. I love how each polar bear has their own personality!

Warm Winter Penguins- 1st grade

I love how these penguins turned out! They all get the same drawing instructions and yet they all turn out so unique! 1st graders learned about warm and cool colors. They created a warm color background with watercolors, then created penguins with black ink daubers. The last step was creating designs on the penguin's hat and scarf by using cool colors.

2nd Grade Woven Hearts

For this project, the 2nd graders got to create abstract paintings and learned how to create a "warp" and "weft" for weaving. Then they learned how to weave and how to create a cut-out "window" to show off their woven colors!

Kindergarten Winter Foxes

I absolutely love how these cozy winter foxes turned out!

The kindergarteners learned how to draw a fox with just 3 shapes, then they got to add their own background and details with crayons. The finishing touch was some white paint snow and, of course, glitter.

Woven Fall Trees

3rd grade

The 3rd graders did so great on their first Fiber Arts project! They learned about "warp" and "weft" as well as the 3 layers of a landscape- foreground, middleground & background. They painted their 3 layers on a plate, cut slots for the yarn, added their warp with brown yarn for the trunk and branches and then finally, after 3 weeks of work, got to add the weft- the colorful fall leaves. I think they turned out really awesome and I'm proud of their hard work on this one!

5th grade Sandra Silberzweig-Inspired Portraits

5th graders learned about the artist Sandra Silberzweig with her unique portrait style and bold use of colors. They also learned about Analogous colors- colors that are beside each other on the color wheel and which mix well together. These artists each drew a portrait in Silberzweig's style and added bright, bold analogous colors to fill in the extra space. They turned out so cool!