5th Grade- Mona Lisa Mayhem!

5th grade learned about the Renaissance during their art history unit. We looked at work from each of the 4 main artists. They loved that the artists inspired the names for the Ninja Turtles. As part of their packet of worksheets, I included a handout of the Mona Lisa that just included the face and hands. We had looked at some appropriated Mona Lisa's in our PowerPoint. The students used the worksheet to create their own parody!

For our big project, I bought a 24x36 print of the Mona Lisa and cut it up into 4x4 inch squares. Each student got 1-2 squares randomly. They used crayons to copy their squares as best as they could. In the end, I put the squares back together for the finished picture! 

5th Grade- Hidden Name Designs!

This was a fun project for 5th grade to do after they spent so long on their Op Art designs. For this project I had them fold their papers multiple times to get many squares. Next they had to draw each letter of their name in each box. They were instructed to make their letters touch each side and the top and bottom of each square. If there name didn't fit in a line or if it was too short, they had to repeat it and make it go onto the next line.

The next day I passed out oil pastels. The object of this project is to make the negative space stand out more than the positive space so that their name was somewhat hidden. They could do this through their color choices or by adding pattern. Here is the final results: 

5th Grade- Op Art Blobs!

For this project the students studied Op Art. We also began this lesson by talking about value and practicing value by making a value scale. Then we looked at images of Op Art on a PowerPoint and discussed how the images tricked our eyes. The full step-by-step instructions for this project can be found at www.mrsbrownart.com. The students had to start in the corner of the shapes and shade from dark to light.. Making the lightest area the center.

**Note for the future: I used a regular sized sheet of paper for this and it took the students FOREVER to finish. Next time we will use just a half sheet if paper and I will encourage the students to make bigger shapes to work with. 

5th Grade- Implied Texture Creatures!

We began this lesson by learning about texture. I showed the students images of pencil drawing that demonstrated textures and talked with them about how we can use our pencils to show texture that can't be felt. I gave them a worksheet that included labled boxes such as "bumpy", "soft", etc. They had to use their pencils to fill in the boxes, making the boxes look like the correct texture. The next day I handed out a half sheet of paper and told the students that they had to come up with their own imaginary creature. They had to do a pencil drawing of their imaginary creatures that included texture. I told them that when the finished, I should be able to tell what the creature feels like just by looking at it.

They did great and I loved the results so much that I felt that I should share alot of pictures with you guys!

 

 

 

 

5th Grade- Symbolic Shape Collage!

5th grade also learned about shapes. However their focus was on symbolic shapes. We breifly reviewed geometric and organic shapes and drew them on the board. I showed them a PowerPoint of symbolic shapes that they see in the world around them. Mostly it included logos of products and places that they see all of the time without including the names. They were able to guess the logos by just looking at the basic shapes and colors. I told them that symblic shapes were shapes that represented something. They were shapes that had meaning and people could understand the meaning by looking at them. I then had the students draw five shapes that symbolized themselves on a sheet of practice paper. The shapes had to be simple and without much detail, if any at all. The next class the students drew and cut out each symbollic shape out of scrap paper. Once they had their shapes cut out, they took one shape at a time and flipped them over so the backside was face up and then used a crayon to color around the edges, making a stencil-like design when the shape was lifted back up. They did this 3 times with each shape and then glued the shape down on their papers. They could add their names at the end if they wanted to. They turned out nice and are very personal. You can tell things about each student from looking at their work.