We began our 2nd semester in January, so I have a new crop of students for art! We started working on sketchbooks as our first project.  Las...

I'm a little behind on my blog posting, so I wanted to go ahead and include everything we've been working on recently into one post...

We had some beautiful snow a couple of weeks ago and a few school delays, so my classes are a little behind on the projects they started at ...

Oooo I'm loving how some of these are turning out!  They are practicing blending in color wheel order, using my handy dandy paintbrush ...

I began this quick and easy lesson on form and shape with a substitute one day a few weeks ago.  Once I returned we went into more dept...

My fifth graders are finishing up their paintings this week.  They practiced blending in a circle for the background and we also discussed m...

This is one of those projects I repeat each year in 4th grade.  They seem to get better.  The colors were especially vibrant this year!  We ...

4th grade began their winter sky value study this week.  Value is the lightness and darkness of an object.  After seeing a similar painting ...

As fifth grade finishes up their whimsical trees, we began a second project in our discussion of abstract art that goes along with our tree...