Cubist Portraits

Here are examples of our abstract portraits. During my lesson, I talked about how european artists first got the idea to start painting in ways that were not realistic. At first some of them (Fauve and German Expressionist if anyone wants to look it up) did this by painting realistically but with crazy wacky colors. We looked at pictures of people with green skin and orange hair. Afterwards, other artists (like Picasso) started moving different body parts around. For my example, I asked students to try using experimental colors and then cutting them up. This one was another big hit with students. After focusing so hard on drawing realistically, I think it was really liberating for them. 

Eagle

Pink Lady Slipper

The Loon

We've been doing a unit on community and citizenship for 2nd grade social studies. In conjunction with that we've been doing illustrations of different symbols for out state and country. These are examples of our state bird, the loon.

Trees

This project was really good at teaching students about about Impressionism. They did an excellent job demonstrating how to use broken lines to create optical blending. As you can tell from much of my own work I really love directional line. They make for really fun and interesting compositions.

Portraits