This post is a week LATE but seriously, guys, it's been a crazy week. I had to install a show in the Students' Art Gallery and coordinate meetings and bleehhhh.... I do this when I can sit and write!
Okay so last Friday I was able to help out with
Liberty Children's Art Project. LCAP is an organization that provides art programs and activities to students that don't have art programs at their schools. They travel throughout the UP to deliver activities to k-12 schools and start afterschool art programs, too.
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| Ink for drawings |
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| Teaching the Roy Lichtenstein lesson she designed. |
One of the instructors came up with a cool lesson about Roy Lichtenstein's work. I was really impressed! She gave each student a sheet of bubble wrap and had them cut an oval out of each sheet. After the oval was cut out the students painted the oval and printed the pattern onto a sheet of paper. That was the face that the students then decorated with paper and paints.
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| painting the bubble wrap |
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| lots of different colors! |
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| what a masterpiece :) |
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| She was a hoot haha |
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| the eyes popped off the paper with this one |
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| so many different designs! |
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| Look at the teeth on this one! Jeeeeze |
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| Ink drawings - leaves and nature |
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| after the students used ink they were able to watercolor paint their rice paper drawings |
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| so many different designs! |
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| flowers and acorns |
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| yay! horse! haha |
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| Gotta get this book in my classroom :) |
One of the other instructors made up a lesson using the "Beautiful Oops" book. She read the students the book and then took each student's paper and created an 'oops' on each one. The challenge for the students was to incorporate their oops into their drawings. The kids had really great ideas with the obstacles on their papers :)
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| blue cat |
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| this student was driving the school bus |
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| each drawing had either a rip, fold, stain, or tear in it |
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| this boy made a bird - he showed me how it talked :) |
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| 'it's my dad!" |
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| One of the other lessons - pop art burgers! |
The day was mostly focused around pop art - Lichtenstein, Warhol - and constructing images. This lesson was about burgers. Students were given a black piece of paper and they had to fill their burgers with any toppings they wanted.
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| too many onions on this for my taste! |
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| pop-up onions and tomatoes |
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| "I wanted to make a fish burger.. but I don't eat fish!" |
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| Kimono ink drawings - students had to draw a person and then decorate their kimono |
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| students filled their kimonos with flowers, leaves, and other imagery |
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| love the facial expression |
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| pretty impressive for third graders |
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| Picasso inspired paintings |
One of the lessons featured Picasso's distorted portraits as a starting off point. Students drew their portraits in ink or permanent marker and then painted with watercolors on top of the lines.
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| this student was drawing a clown |
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| love all the patterns here |
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| so many lines |
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| the complexity in this is so interesting.. how many faces do you see? |
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| the blues and purples here - so cool! |
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| this student was not really excited about the lesson til he got the materials in his hands! |
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| Minecraft, anyone? |
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| LOTS Of 3D with this one |
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| more burger photos |
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| This one is GREAT! Halloween burger! Skull and blood for toppings lol oh, and a spider web |
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| I dunno about you guys, but I am HUNGRY :) |
I was an assistant to three great ladies who all have a huge interest in the Arts in education. It was an excellent experience! We worked with grades 1-3 and did 6 different lessons with those students. Kids were rotated from room to room for each project and it was altogether very successful. It took me a little while to find my footing and figure out how I could be of help but it felt like I was the classroom manager in each room haha.
I loved working with the kids and I gained some new lesson ideas in the process! I still think I am a Secondary Art teacher at heart, but it was a good experience and I learned a lot. The kids were really funny and open to our ideas and teaching. They were excited for us to be there and their interest spurred our creativity together as learners and teachers.
Ms. K
