Thursday, December 13, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The Second Graders created bark paintings inspired by the Nahau Native American tribe from Mexico. They studied the culture to prepare themelves for their paintings. The students drew from observation with pictures of animals from Mexico that I provided. They used their drawing as the emphasis for their bark paintings. Before they drew their animals they had to prepare the paper to make it look like bark. They crumbled the paper and painted it with watered down black tempera paint. They painted their animals with tempera paint after they drew them. Finally, they painted a pattern in the background. Great Work!
Friday, November 9, 2012
My First Grade classes made Mexican Plate Collages. They also studied Mexico to prepare the students for the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibition coming to the High Museum in February. The students looked at the colorful Fiber Art, specifically rugs, that come from Mexico to get ideas for their placemats. They drew patterns with oil pastels and painted over their patterns with tempera cakes to create a paint resist for their placemats. Then, they painted something from nature as the emphasis for the plates. They used oil pastels to draw a line pattern behind their emphasis. Next, they traced a circle on their painted paper and another on a plain colored paper. They cut them out and glued their plate design on the the plain paper to make the plate. Finally, they glued the plate on the placemat. Fantastic!
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Kindergarten created a Bug on a Rug collage. They studied Mexico to prepare the students for the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibition coming to the High Museum in February. The students looked at the colorful Fiber Art, specifically rugs, that come from Mexico. They made their rug out of paper, oil pastels, and tempera cake paints. They used a paint resist technique. In the first unit they studied lines, shapes, color, and patterns. They had to use lines to create a pattern for their rug. Then, we talked about how there are shapes all around us. They looked at bug pictures to see what kind of shapes they could find. They used shapes to make their bug out of construction paper. Finally, they glued their bug onto the rug. They turned out great!
Friday, August 10, 2012
I am ready for another great school year. It has been a while since I have posted anything new. At the end of the school year, I was out on maternity leave. It has been a very busy summer for me. There will be a lot of creative thinking going on in the Cavenaugh Studio this year. Please make sure to stop by periodically and check out what we are creating. I am looking forward to sharing all the wonderful art my students make!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
I made a cityscape.I learnd about a horizon line and dephth.we drew cars and birds.The color of the sky was purple.I drew a firetruck.It was fun.
I made a cityscape.I love it so much.I worked so hard on it.We drew cars suns and birds.The color of my sky was blue.I hop you like it.