Amazing Scarecrows - A Collage

The second graders have been VERY busy as well.
They too worked on a two session project.

The first session was spent creating a background with rolling horizons and vertical field lines.
We talked about perspective drawing and how to draw objects up-close versus in the far distance.
The kids used colored crayons to outline the horizon and the fields, added a sun and some small details.
Liquid watercolor was used to fill in the fields and the sky and they watched how magically white clouds appeared after they painted their skies blue (we had used white crayons to draw clouds on the white paper).

This week they got to work and create their scarecrows out of colorful paper stock, wool, buttons and wooden coffee stir sticks.
A HUGE THANK YOU to Mrs. Beverly Ybarra for the donation of these beautiful card stocks,
to Starbucks for the donation of the stir sticks and to Teresa Lim & her mom for the donation of buttons and fabric scraps.
As you can see we put all of your goodies to GOOD USE! :)

After two completed sessions the kids have some super awesome cool (I am starting to learn the Elementary language very well :) scarecrow collages to show off.

Every respectable scarecrow must have a light saber!

This pretty lady has a matching hat to her flowery dress, the latest in scarecrow fashion!

This young man is rather stylish in his skinny pants and shirt.
I am sure flower-girl from above is eying him up :)

I am SO proud of these kids and their creations.
A room full of 8 year olds and it was so quiet and everybody was working so hard on their masterpieces.

LOVE IT!!!!

Scarecrow Art Attack was a HUGE success!

This project was inspired by one of my favorite kids art blogs DeepSpaceSparkle.
Thank you Patti for sharing and for the tutorial!

Room 9 puts things into PERSPECTIVE

Mrs. G ran this session with her kiddos and when I saw the results I had to snap some photos of them and post them here.

These perspective drawings are wonderful and the kids did a great job adding their own flair to their creations. 

The kids sketched their scenes, traced with black marker (Sharpie) and then colored the picture with liquid water color.

Some kids chose the center to be a street, some chose it to be a river and each and every picture has it's own personality. 

Room 9 - 

Putting things into PERSPECTIVE

GREAT job, as always.

You guys rock the art world big time and I can't wait to see what 3rd Grade has in store for you.
Hopefully I can come and see you one more time before you graduate.

Art Attack on Room 9 is always in progress!

This too is a Deep Space Sparkle inspired lesson.

The little Miros from Room 9

Room 9 is awesome!

Mrs. G surely does a wonderful job teaching various techniques using different mediums and quite often already has done the project with her kids that I am about to suggest.

A few weeks ago we introduced the kids to Mr. Miro and his automatic drawing technique.
As we did in the 1st Grades, we used black colored paper and chalk pastels and then just let the kids go wild and have fun with it.

The idea of drawing random lines with your eyes closed sounds so fun to the kids, they all can't wait to get started and ALWAYS impress with their wonderful way of using their imagination.

I love, love, love this project!

The kids find so many different things in these random drawings and create the most amazing art pieces.

Follow me into the:

Abstract World of Room 9

Horray for Room 9 and all of its amazing artists!

You guys ROCK and I LOVE spending time and making messy creations with you!

Well done my little friends!

Miro-Art-Attack on Room 9 was mirotastic :)

Self-Portraits - Grade 2 / Room 12

We are loving these self-portraits so much that we decided to run this session in Grade 2 as well.
To change it up a bit we used water color this time, instead of the oil pastels in Grade 3.

I LOVE how soft the watercolor looks and how expressive these portraits are.
Congratulations to ALL Room 12 Artists.
AWESOME!!!

Great, great work guys!
Art Attack on Room 12 was a piece of cake :)