Grade One Take on The Masters

 

Last year I gave each of my grade one students a giant colouring-in sheet to complete over the year, which eventually became the cover page of their art folio. I had a few different famous paintings for the students to choose from and in the end I loved seeing how five and six year olds approached these famous images. I love the women with their heavy-handed green eye-shadow! I thought you may like to see some of these too.

A Bar at the Folies Bergere, Edouard Manet, 1882 image courtesy of impressionist1877

Rose and Tulip, Edouard Manet 1882 image courtesy of wikipaintings.org

The Bridge at Moret-Sur-Loing, Alfred Sisely. image via artmight.com

 

Bedroom in Arles, Vincent Van Gogh, 1888. image courtesy of vg gallery.com

 

Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci c 1503-1519 image courtesy of wikipedia

Magic Carpets

My grade 3 and 4 students have been creating magic carpets based on Persian rugs this term. This is one of those projects which took a lot longer than I thought it would. I just saw this great project at Georgetown Elementary Art Blog and I now wish we'd done something more simple like their magic carpets. 

Ours were done in a similar way to the mandalas I've done before, in that we started with half the design and traced it to get a symmetrical second half. Once the design was all traced out I had the students outline and then colour their work before finishing it off with a paper fringe glued to each end. It took them many weeks to complete this process and although they look quite nice I think we were all sick of them by completion!