Van Gogh Chair - 3D

Here's Van Gogh's Chair to go with Van Gogh's Sunflower 3D lesson.  Again, thanks Anne from Use Your Coloured Pencils for inspiring this idea with her Van Gogh Pop-Up Chair lesson.

Each student was given one black paper and 2 white papers.
First step we did was place 2 whites evenly in center of black paper, then folded up the bottom of the papers all at the same time.  (I think the paper was 5x7" and we folded up 3"?)
After that, cut two slits in one white paper on the fold to make pop-up chair seat.
Then we drew and colored chair and background on first white paper, then drew and colored floor and wall on white paper with slits cut for chair.
Then we drew floor and wall on 2nd white paper in area that shows through the back, when white papers are placed on top of one another.
Last, glue white papers onto black background.

 Example of front white paper and background white paper.  Below is what they look like when placed on top of one another.

The little chairs looked so cute on the book shelves in the classroom:)  Thanks bunches Flamson 6th graders!

Just Curious?

Last year, summer lesson art project.

Cover of The Art Lesson (Paperstar Book)

How many of us teach art lessons/camp 

during the summer?

I've taught art lessons in my garage during the past 3 summers, but this summer I was on call for "jury duty" in June, so I couldn't schedule any lessons.  I must admit I've enjoyed the time off, but not teaching goes with less income..........oh well........

Just curious if you teach art during the school year, AND summer too?  If you do, my hat goes off to you!!

I love kids, but honestly there are times when I revel in not being around other people's children.

Van Gogh Sunflowers- 3D

Image via Wikipedia

Thanks Anne from Use Your Coloured Pencils for inspiring this idea with her Van Gogh Pop-Up Chair lesson.  We did the chairs too, they were fun!

This was a simple lesson, but it took longer than I thought it would because the kids got into the coloring of their backgrounds.

Each student was given 1 black, 6"x9" paper, and 1 white 5"x7" & 1 white 4"x6" papers.

First they placed 5x7" white in center of black, and folded up the bottom 1/3 of the papers together.  (Then put black paper aside til later.)

Next make 2 cuts on fold of 5x7" white paper to make the 3D shelf which will hold the vase of flowers in front of the background.

On smaller sheet of white paper, students draw vase and flowers, then cut and glue onto shelf.  (Tell kids to use up whole piece of paper for their vase and flowers, otherwise it'll be too small.)

Last, glue white background onto black background.

4th of July Flag!

Everybody now! "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandeeeee, a Yaaaaankee Dooodle Do or Die. A real live nephew of my Unnncle Sam, born on the 4th of July...."
Here's a fun printmaking craft for the holiday.
Thanks bunches to Teach Kids Art for sharing this idea for monoprints!
Thanks bunches to my real live neighbor, really named "Sam" who created this awesome "Flag" monoprint below:) Tempera paint on foil. The paint doesn' t have to be too thick.

Draw "backwards" flag with a Q-tip.

After drawing is complete, cover gently with paper. (We used cardstock)

Roll a brayer lightly over the paper, careful not to move the paper around.

Lift paper carefully from both sides at a time.

And KABOOM! Light the fireworks and celebrate 'cause this is one awesome flag!!!

Edible Art.....

Finally a time to try this edible art lesson & it worked!  I was very nervous about knowing how much food coloring to use in the icing, thinking I'd probably have lots of brown icing among the kids.  Alas, the fretting wasn't justified.  The icing colors were very forgiving and the desired results were easy to achieve.
Also, our grocery store had "mini" vanilla wafers, which delighted me, since I had no idea how many regular size wafers would be in a box.  I wanted every kid to have their own color wheel, so that meant 12 cookies per kid.  One box of "minis" went a long ways.  (FYI-I'd estimate there were approx. 175 mini wafers in one box.)
Each student was given 3 regular size wafers for the primary colors, and 9 minis for the secondary and tertiary colors.  They also got 3 blobs of white icing, and 4 drops of blue food coloring in one, 4 drops of red in other, and 4 drops of yellow in last blob.

They created their color wheel, then decorated "graham cracker" canvases with icing from their wheel.

Here's more about edible color wheel lessons if you want some hints from other teachers who've done this with their students.

 Students painted these graham crackers using toothpicks.

 Below you can see that I gave kids a color wheel, cheat sheet too for this one.  (Reinforcement, reinforcement, reinforcement.....)

It was fun!!

Picasso Sculptures

 

Found this cool idea on Art Attack.  It's filed under 3D Sculptures.  Unfortunately the kids used the "dreaded" word "ugly" a lot during this project, but I still think it was worth the effort.  There were a few of them that the students wanted to take home, but most ended up in the trash.  Tsk, tsk....

Directions:  (Acquire LOTS of boxes!)

1. Disfigure large box, then tape corners of other boxes on it for facial features.

2. Add torn paper and watered down glue to entire outside of sculpture, and let dry.

3. Outline cubism areas and paint.

4.  Add features w/ paint or markers.

5. Add black lines to emphasize the cubism.

This one is awesome!  This student really gets cubism, eh?

Here is a "Picasso Duck" on one side and "Picasso Monkey" on the other.  Very cute, and it went home with its lovely creator!

"Picasso Nature"

Thanks No. Co. Christian High School students.