Gracie - The Artist's Story

I had the opportunity to teach the coolest "student" at our school a couple of weeks ago.  Our school does a plant sale each year as a fundraiser.  As an additional event, and to get all classrooms creative and involved, we also have a flower pot auction.

Each classroom paints a flower pot or has a guest artist paint it for them.  

This year, I helped our K-9 Comfort Dog create a flower pot.  

Gracie

I hope she had as much fun as I did!

I also added a little photo album to share the experience of teaching a really awesome painter!  

It might become a real hobby for Gracie!

You can find more information about Gracie on her Facebook Page [click here]

and more about Lutheran Church Charities K-9 Comfort Dogs [here].

Learning to Share

Each year, I do a project with the second grade students based on the book "Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister.

We talk about SHAPE. What shapes can fish be?
We talk about SPACE.  The goal is to use the space of the paper to create our fish.
We talk about LINE.  Line quality  and space becomes important on this project because we are going to draw with GLUE!

The kids practice drawing a few fish and then I give them each a 9X12 piece of black construction paper and a bottle of glue.

Gloppy glue drying. The glue will dry clear on the black paper.

They draw.......there are NO mistakes in art!

Most of the drawings have to stay flat on the table to dry overnight.

At our next class, we talk about COLOR.

The kids are always excited when we pull out the oil pastels!

I have them choose one color for their fish.  We find every shade of blue, green, orange and purple we can find in the boxes and we work on blending.



The final treasure of this piece is pulling out the glitter to share a sparkly scale.

The art was great this year!
I hope you enjoy.....