Kandinsky Paintings

In Art class, 1st graders learned about two different types of shapes; geometric and free-from. Some examples of geometric shapes are circles, squares, and triangles. Some free-from shapes are cats, blobs, and me. Students created art just like the artist Kandinsky by painting geometric and free-form shapes. They painted shapes using the primary colors and then added black paint to show different types of lines.

MC Esher video

Very Cool VIdeo

3D shapes video

Circle Painting

I saw this on Barbara's thought of the day blog. Love this idea and plan to do it sometime this year. I think the kids would LOVE it!!!
Here is the website:
http://www.circlepainting.org/

Grandma Moses Video

Salvador Dali Videos

Tall Painting

Dragon Paintings

Throw away those erasers!
Building Dragons
With Basic Shapes
created by
3rd graders

Secondary Oceans

Students mixed their own secondary colors on 3 pieces of paper. Then cut and glued their oceans together!

3-D Snowflakes

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-3D-Paper-Snowflake

I know I've seen a lot of these posted, but did you all know about the site that shows step-by-step how to make the snowflake!?!

More Architecture!

Cities

In Art class, 5th graders studied Architecture. They learned about many famous buildings and architectural styles. Students then learned how to use shading to make drawings of skyscrapers appear
three-dimensional.
The last two pictures are great architecture books for kids!

3-D Cities