What I Have My Hand In

Here's a glimpse of some of the art I've been watching progress over the past month.

Second graders have been learning about Grant Wood's painting, American Gothic.  They also learned how to overlap objects to create an illusion of depth.  

    

I love preschool lessons.   Here they explored markmaking with block tempera for the first time.

 

 Kindergarteners, who were learning shapes, made pictures of things out of tangram blocks and then drew from that.

  

Fourth graders have been learning how to draw the human figure in proportion and then to draw it showing motion.

    

Fifth graders learned how to draw from still life arrangements.

 

Having not really drawn from observation before, they appear truly excited to see how well they do

A lot of evenings I feel disappointed at how little of my own artwork I have engaged in that day.  However, if you count all the things I have "had my hand in" at school, I think I can give myself a bit of credit for at least that effort.