Fall Pumpkin Art Bean Mosaic

We  learned about and created some bean mosaic art pieces. Since it is Halloween and the fall, I decided we should do pumpkin bean mosaics. Here are a few examples

Woodworking as Art

In this lesson,students learned how to cut, glue, and join wood pieces to form structures. Students worked with balsa wood since its fairly soft but strong and is readily available in most arts and craft stores. The first structure was built by a middle school student and the second a high school student.

Fall Art

So now that it is fall I introduced students to some fall inspired projects. One projects was a mixed media with paper)construction and tissue), paint and for the rings paper towel rolls were cut and dip them in paint to create some interesting designs. Check out the example.

Notan

Notan is a Japanese design art form in which you cut forms out of a square and glue them as if they are a mirror image from the space in which you cut them from. We were learning about positive and negative space so I thought this would be a great and simple way to learn just that. The students liked this project and found it fairly easy to create a nice piece of art.

Cubism

We studied cubism in art this week. People know of cubism because of Picasso. The students I have all love cartoon characters. So we painted some cartoon characters in the cubist style. Here is one example.