Art Cart

One of the things I have had to learn to do while being an art teacher is to be creative!  The school I teach in has a limited budget.  My classroom is a large space that my class and I share with a math teacher and a math class.  Unfortunately, we do not have a sink so I found this cart to function as a sink.  There are tubs of soapy water for kids to wash their brushes and hands in. 

Calendar

This is a picture of my calendar.  I have incorporated this into my blog because it has been such a huge asset to my students and I!  I believe that it is important to model the behavior you would like your students to demonstrate.  A piece of knowledge I hope to impart upon my students is how to plan and use time management skills to get projects completed on time.  My calendar is color-coded for each of the classes I teach.

Impressionist Oil Resist Paintings

Students began their study of the Impressionists at the Columbus Art Museum.  We looked at several of Monet's paintings, as well as Cezanne and Renior (just to name a few).  The class documented their trip by recording information about the paintings they saw and made some sketches.  After the trip, students replicated a Impressionist painting of their choice using oil pastels.  Students brushed watercolor pigment over the drawing to complete it.

Kandinsky ink-watercolors

Students studied artist Wassily Kandinsky and Expressionism.  As a class, we looked at several of Kandinsky's artworks and learned about his life, his travels throughout Europe and his interaction with artist groups such as the Bauhaus and Der Blaue Reiter.  We also discussed Kandinsky's passion for music and how he attempted to paint/visually depict music.  Students demonstrated their knowledge of Kandinsky by making a glue/india ink and watercolor painting while listening to music in an attempt to paint what they thought the music looked like.