Mixed Media Collage
Marcia
Marcia is an elementary art teacher and loves painting, drawing, sculpture, art journaling and clay. Her blog, Art is Basic, features many exciting art projects for kids.
Pop Art Portraits
These lovely Pop Art portraits were created by our 2nd graders this week. We read a book about Andy Warhol and watched a video about Pop Art. We looked at and discussed Andy’s use of bright colors, repetition and popular…
Mondrian Collage Art Project for Kids – Primary Colors
We did this project last week to introduce the primary colors-red, blue and yellow to the kindergartners. We looked at the artwork of Piet Mondrian and discussed his use of color– primary colors + neutral black and white. We…
Farmers’ Market
Farmers’ Market Collage
Painting Tiles
OH, painting tiles! How I love them!
Water bottle Flowers
At the very end of last year, my third grade students cut apart plastic water bottles to make these flowers. I started them off by cutting the bottom of the bottle off, then they continued with scissors. You can round…
Alphabet Art from the First Graders
What is a focal point? How do artists arrange their composition? What is emphasis? How have words and letters been used in art? These are some of the questions the 1st graders explored in their first unit. We looked…
What can you do with a dot?
What is art? What materials can be used to create art? How do we properly use art materials? These are the questions that the Nest (grade K) discussed at the beginning of the school year. They also learned about the…
Flower Collage
I’m trying to find a way to use up all the photos I take. Here is a mixed media collage using a flower photo I took.
Primary Self-Portraits and Machinery Drawings
I started out the year with the Primary students (1st grade) drawing small, quick self portraits. One kid drew himself as a pirate! lol. The 4/5s (4th/5th graders mixed) looked at gears and drew them from observation. I also had…
Waiting and Watching, photo, fabric, gesso, watercolor and fabric spray paints, September 2010
Tiles!
I’m in love with painting tiles and making tiles from Sculpey. I just tried making Sculpey tiles this week and wow, was it fun!! I got the idea from Laurie Mika’s book Mixed Media Mosaics. I got the idea for…
Art Class Room Set Up
Today was our first day of school. Would you like to see a glimpse of my room? Paints Paintbrushes Free Draw Cart View of the classroom. We have small rooms because we have small classes. This is the view from…
Fun Blog
I just discovered a fun blog from a kindergarten teacher who does lots of way cool art projects. These kids are so lucky to have such a creative teacher! I’m impressed with the felted balls she made with the kindergartners. …
New Collage Doodle
