Monet Bridge Painting

Here is my painting of Monet's Bridge. For this activity, I started by creating the orange bridge in the middle of the page with an orange crayon. Next, I took a light green and dark green and created vines at the top of page, and lily pads at the bottom.  I than took my white crayon and created clouds at the top of my page. With the white crayon I also tried to create some movement throughout my work by adding different types of lines throughout my painting. Lastly, I used a red and pink crayon and filled in the lily pads and added different types of flowers under the bridge. Once completed with the crayons, we used blue and purple watercolor to bring out the warm crayon colors we used. I used a blue and purple pattern throughout my painting. 

An extension activity for this project would be to have the students write a short story about their bridge. Students would use their imagination and create a fun story about their bridge that they will share with the class. 

Van Gogh Sunflower Painting

Here is my Van Gogh sunflower painting. To begin this project, we need a sheet of construction paper. Then we used our pencil and created a vase. For my vase, I tried to create a big round one, because it reminded me of the vases that my mother used for her flowers. Next, we drew three circles where ever on the page. Once done with our circles, we attached stems from the vase to them. After that, I drew petals coming off of each one of my circles. Next I colored my vase purple, and colored the stems of the flowers green. When completed with the coloring, I filled in the center of each of my flowers with a checkers board design. When completed with that, we painted our flower petals yellow. Once the paint was dry, we used sunflower seeds and glued them around the edge of the flower. 

An extension activity you could do for this is have the students go on a field trip to a green house. This would be fun for the students and they would be learning new information outside of the classroom. 

Hidden Safari

 

This is my Hidden Safari project. For this activity, I chose to hide a monkey. What I did first was took a book crayon and had the monkey image upside down and I tried to replicate it.  This helps you focus on the lines, rather than the entire image. When doing this step, be careful not to press to hard with the crayon. I did in my artwork, and me monkey isn't very well hidden. So be sure you press lightly with the blue crayon. Once completed with your animal, find your warm colors. With your warm colors draw whatever kind of shapes and patterns. Try to fill your page with you shapes and patterns so that you hide your animal. You want to make it difficult so that you can't see your animal unless you have on your red glasses. The red glasses allow the animal to be visible. 

My Hidden Safari Clues:

1. You can find me hanging in a tree.

2. The animal is usually brown.

3. This animal loves bananas. 

An extension activity for this for students to do would be to learn about different animals. I would assign students different animals and they will be assigned to research information about their animal. The students would  find 5-7 facts about their animal and share them with the class. 

Van Gogh Landscape Collage

Here is my Van Gogh Landscape collage. For this project you need: construction paper, different color tissue paper, glue, white crayon and oil pastels. To begin this project, you want to cut of shapes with the tissue paper. You can create whatever kind of shape you want and glue them to your black sheet of construction paper. Once you cover enough space with the tissue paper, you will cover your entire black sheet of construction paper with tempera. I let the construction paper dry and then I used the white color and white oil pastel to add lines to try to create some movement in my artwork. Then I took another sheet of black construction paper and created a city outline. I then took the oil pastel and added windows and a street to try to give it a city feel.

For an extension activity students could find a place that is special to them and try to recreate it. For example a student could do Minneapolis and create it however they want and then explain to one another why they chose the place they did and how it makes them feel. This would give students the opportunity to be creative and create a place in their image.