Famous Portraits...in progress

Egyptian Cats in Tempera

We talked about the significance of cats in Ancient Egypt. They were believed to have special powers and were worshipped by the Egyptians. We created our own cats and included a typical Egyptian border. We also wrote our names in hieroglyphics. We used metallic gold paint for the background and used any colors of our choice to paint our cats.

Pearlescent Watercolor Fish

The students are practicing drawing from observation. They have several options of fish to draw.

Faith Ringgold Quilts

We read Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold. In the story, a girl flies over different buildings, and when she does, they magically become hers. We created pictures of places or things we would like to fly over and make our own. This artist paints on fabric and sewing them into quilts. Each student received a square and used collage to create a quilt- like border. The squares will be arranged in a quilt format on the wall.

Photos coming soon...

Rodolfo Morales

We made torn paper collages in the style of Mexican artist Rodolfo Morales after reading the book Angel's Kite. Our collages show the season of our birthdays.

2nd Grade Paper Weaving

We learned about warm and cool colors. We painted two papers with watercolors, one with warm colors and the other with cool colors. Then we cut them apart and wove them together.

Picasso Portraits

These Cubist portraits will be going in our artist books. We added color with oil pastels.

Van Gogh Sunflowers in Chalk Pastel

We learned about Vincent Van Gogh and his painting about sunflowers. We had real sunflowers to look at when we made our art. We drew what we saw on dark construction paper. Then we went over our pencil lines with white tempera paint. Then we fill in our shapes with chalk pastels and added a background.