Scrapbook Still Life Collages

Forth grade students used scrapbook paper to create these still life collages.

Snake in a Tree

Fifth grade students drew a snake wrapping around a tree, outlined the drawing with permanent marker and painted the drawing with watercolor paint.

Mouse Paint

After reading Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh, first grade students mixed the primary colors to create secondary colors. Students then created the mice from the story and glued the mice to their painted paper.

Painting the Alphabet with Jasper Johns

After viewing Colored Alphabet by Jasper Johns, Kindergarten students painted the letters of the alphabet using tempera paint and used tempera cakes to paint the background.

Autumn Leaves

Third grade students used rubber leaves to create these overlapping designs.

Gyotaku Fish Prints

Third grade students learned about the Japanese art of gyotaku which means "fish rubbing". Japanese fishermen, wanting to record the size and type of fish caught, would rub ink on their fish, cover the fish with rice paper and rub their hands along the top of the fish printing it onto the rice paper. These prints below were done with rubber fish and acrylic paint. The seaweed was printed from feathers. The background was completed with watercolors.

Venetian Masks

Fifth grade students created these masks inspired by masks of Venice, Italy.

The Solar System

Forth grade students created value using oil pastels to make these planets appear three-dimensional. Students used the sun as the light source and blended white and black to create the highlight and the shadow on the planets.

Gumball Machines inspired by Wayne Thiebaud

Third grade students drew gumball machines after viewing the gumball machines Wayne Thiebaud created. Students colored in the machines with oil pastel and used watercolors in the background.