Tuesday, October 13, 2015

happy fall, y'all!!!!

Our third graders have been busy celebrating the arrival of fall!  We started off looking at leaves and applying all the elements of art to a single leaf.  Students found that a leaf had texture, line, color, shape, value, and space (positive).  The only element of art a leaf does not have is form -3D.  Each third grade class completed a different project using a leaf as inspiration.




Mrs.  Murray's class painted the underside of the leaf white and made prints on black paper.  Next they took small sponges and filled in the negative space with tempera paint in the color of their choice.  These were really fun and look beautiful when finished!  Originally mad on 9 X 12 paper and then were cut down to 9 X 9.  I laminated the extra 3 X 12 strips for each student to use as a bookmark.
 









Mrs. Ward's students chose a leaf template and applied pattern to different sections of the leaf using sharpie.  For the background we used a shiny silver poster board and printed leaves in black around their pattern leaves.  They used block printing ink and brayers to complete their piece.
Here are some of the students completing their line and shape patterns.

Finished projects!



 Mrs. Baltimore's students started off their projects by watercoloring the background.  Some students chose to add salt, bubble wrap, and plastic wrap to create a texture.  After it was dry, students printed leaves in the background using synthetic rubber leaves form Sax Leaf Nature Expressions Set.





Mrs. Taylor's class created a project I found on Cassie Stephens blog.  For complete instructions, visit her post -  http://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2012/03/leaf-relief.html  She is an amazing art teacher in Franklin, TN at Johnson Elementary... just a stone's throw away!  Not really, but we are Nashville neighbors!  My student's loved doing this project!!!  The results are definitely frame worthy :)

 Students went outside and collected several leaves.  They arranged them vein side up into an interesting composition on mat board.  When satisfied with the arrangement, they carefully moved them to the side and I sprayed their board with spray adhesive. The leaves were placed back on the board and sprayed again.  A piece of foil was laid on top and students gently smoothed out the foil and pressed the foil into all the veins and crevices on the leaves.  When dry, we took them outside and sprayed all of them with black spray paint.  The next class, students used extra fine steel wool to take off some of the black paint revealing the shape and texture of the leaves.  It was one of the AAAAWWWWEEEE moments in the Art Room!  I love those!!!  Finally they created a spatter painted background using fall colors on black poster board.  It was a little messy, but colors complement the beautiful foil reliefs!






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