Now Serving......4th grade food sculptures!

There is always excitement in the air when it comes time for the 4th graders to work with clay.  For this piece of art we look at Claes Oldenburg and his famous food sculptures for inspiration.  The students drew a sketch of their chosen food and include notes on how they will try to re-create it in clay.  Once their sculpture is finished, it is fired in the kiln, painted, and displayed it the library. 

New England Autumn Landscapes-4th grade

This artwork is a little late getting displayed, but better late than never!

Amy-4th gr.

Matteo-4th grade

Ashley-4th grade

4th graders created a New England autumn landscape in connection with their social studies unit on regions.  The students used a masking tape resist technique to create the trees and planned their composition using foreground, middle ground, and background to create the illusion of space and distance.  They taped different sized strips of masking tape to their paper to create the trees in the fore, middle, and background.  The land and sky were painted using tempera cakes.  When the paint dried, the tape was peeled away to reveal areas of white paper.  Details were added turning the areas of white paper into birch trees.  Other details were added using colored pencils.

Idea thanks to mrsbrownart.com

A Bug's Life--More student work

A Bug's Life--4th Grade

Fourth grade artists created landscapes from a bug's point of view using a crayon resist and watercolors. The students worked with scale and tried to imagine how big the world would be to an insect.