Collaborative Art Projects

Wow, I loved getting all the great feedback on my question about selling kids' art.  Lots of helpful input!

I especially like the ideas where you have your students do collaborative art, then sell it.  I think I can do that........

Any pics/ ideas out there for collaborative artworks?

I'm thinking maybe a school of fish or birds in an outdoor setting, flowers, boats on a lake, animals, etc.?????

If you've had your students create a collaborative artwork where the finished product is small enough to be framed, it would be great to see it:)

Thanks again for sharing!  I LOVE Art Teachers!

UPDATE---

Wow, I'm seeing tons of great ideas for collaborative art that is being made and sold at various school fundraisers.......  Thanks again for sharing your ideas.  If you have more ideas, please comment and I'll add the link to this post:)

Marcia Beckett shares her students' cool printing art here & school of fish and super great stool here.  (I love the stool art, no doubt it went to a lucky person at the auction.)

I also found this blog showing many art projects created for the Beverly Cleary School 2009 Auction.  Love the Peace Dove, and the origami art.

Have you tried to sell student artwork at your art shows?

Image by Ian Muttoo via Flickr

Hi There,
It's getting close to our annual art show and many of the same questions/ideas/comments come up every year.  Some of them are easily answered, but this one continues to stump me, "Is there a way that the student artwork can be for sale?"
So far my answer has been, "Yes, but...............",  and after the "but" are all the practical reasons for making this task very difficult and some of the fears I have regarding students feelings toward their art.
With that said, I am at a private school and funds are needed now more than ever.
Has your school ever sold student artwork at it's art show?  Can you share the method used & would you recommend it?

Would love to hear from you, especially those of you who've been teaching art for ages and have been-there, done-that!
Tisha

Cubism Cats

Big thanks to Marcia Beckett and her "Art is Basic" blog for posting
this Cubist Cat lesson.

My 3rd graders enjoyed it lots!
During the first class, I gave a directed drawing lesson for the cat.  After drawing in pencil, students traced w/ black marker.
Then in second lesson students added shapes by making lines with a ruler.  Then they colored in the shapes.

Winter Polar Bears

Saw a great, simple polar bear pic on Artsonia.  What I liked about it was the way the artist put green and purple in the background, and put green and purple in the white fur of the bear.  When I showed my students my example, with green and purple in the fur too, we talked about how beautiful the fur can look with more than just the color white and how the colors of the sky can be reflecting in the white fur.  My students had lots of fun choosing their sky colors and then adding it to the fur.
We used chalk pastels on light blue construction paper.
Steps:
1.  Draw bear and facial features with white chalk.
2.  Draw white fur using little strokes in the direction that the fur would actually grow.
3.  Choose background colors, color background and blend chalk colors w/ finger.
4.  Add little bit of background colors to fur in bear.
5.  Add more white fur on top of colors, and blend with finger.

Snowy Trees

"Snowy Trees" Art Project (Re-post from a couple years ago)

Materials needed: black paper ( mine is 9x12"), oval template, white chalk, tissue, white paint (tempera or acrylic), comb

Place template on black paper and use the side of the chalk, pushing from the template off the side onto black paper.




Use tissue to gently smear the chalk.



Lift off template and draw a wavy line for the snow.


Color in the snow.


Make dotted lines for tree trunks.

Draw branches.

Place picture in box to protect the area from paint splatters. (This step can also be done on a large piece of butcher paper.)

Dip comb into paint, and splatter paint by rubbing thumb against the comb as shown in picture at the top.

All Done!!

Plaid & Cats

My 5th graders did these last month.  Love this plaid theme, it would be fun 

right now w/ Red&Green plaid too!

I also love the blog where I found it, A Faithful Attempt.  I don't see many other art teachers out there teaching K-12 art, so this blog is particularly inspiring for me b/c she does super great lessons with amazing results.

Winter on its way...bring out the penguins

My first graders made these penguins.

For drawing, I gave each student a cup to trace for the belly, then they drew their own arms, head, face, and feet.

Great Job NCCS 1st graders!!

More Leaves....

Wow, how nice to do simple art, yet still get wonderful results.  Sometimes I get so caught up looking at all the new, exciting art lessons out here in blog-world, that I forget about the tried and true art lessons that bring so much pleasure to children.

Our latest Leaf Rubbings
(Hmmm, been having lots o' probs w/ pics getting turned around on my posts...
never used to happen this much.)