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Week 2
Sept 7-11th
Project | Remote Art At home Week 2
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! For your first assignment, you are being asked to create your own Tiny Art Show!
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
Paper
crayons or markers
sharpie
glue
tape
figurines (toys) from your home
a wall
natural lighting
(remember if you don't have all the supplies that's OK! Just use what you DO have at home!)
For your first project, you will be creating your own Tiny ART Show/Museum! Create your own art gallery by making little drawings or paintings and using toy figures to act as observers in your gallery.
Please watch this video here to get you started!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Simple how to draw frame for my younger students!
Example of fancy frames! You can copy these or draw your own!
Please remember to turn in upload all your final assignment HERE!
Design Your Name!
Week 3
Sept 16-23rd
Project | Remote Art At home Week 3
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! For your second assignment, you are being asked to create your own name out of found objects around your home! If you have a short name you may want to do first and last name.
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
Objects, food, toys, junk, sticks you name it! Whatever you have at home to do this!
laptop or camera to photograph your name
a wall or place with natural lighting for a good photo op!
Please watch this art teacher's video HERE to get you started!
Remember to check out all the pictures along this side bar to help give you ideas! Happy creating friends!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Color Wheels
Week 4
Sept 24-Oct 2nd
Project | Remote Art At home Week 4
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! For your third assignment, you are being asked to create your own household object color wheel out of found objects around your home! Remember the more random objects you find to make your wheel of color look "fuller" the better it will turn out!
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
Objects, food, toys, junk, any colorful object you name it! Whatever you have at home to do this!
laptop or camera to photograph your name
a wall or place with natural lighting for a good photo op!
Please watch this art teacher's video
to get you started!
(video is posted along left side)
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Remember to check out all the pictures along this side bar to help give you ideas! Happy creating friends!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Vanishing Point Pumpkin Patches
Week 5
Oct 5th-Oct 13th
Project | Remote Art At home Week 5
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! For your fourth assignment, you are being asked to create vanishing point pumpkin patch.
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
*Paper 8x10 is fine Would recommend you have some type of paper that you can paint on (meaning thicker than copy paper)
*Paint brushes
*Paint
*Water dish
*paper towel
*ruler or a straight edge of some sort
*pencil
*sharpie marker (or a black marker that won't bleed when you add water and paint to it)
*If you don't have paint, you can use crayola markers and add water to the markers to make the colors bleed like paint!
VOCABULARY
VANISHING POINT
HORIZION LINE
For my Kinder, first, second and 3rd graders please ask for a grown up to help you hold the ruler to make your lines! This is ok to have someone help you with this step as in normal art class in school, you would be turning to your elbow partner, the student sitting next to you to take turns helping hold the ruler.
Friendly reminder for my K-3 students as well, try not to make your pumpkins have "straight" lines on them, but rather lines that curve!
Good luck and happy creating!
Please watch this quick demo video
to get you started!
(video is posted along left side)
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Remember to check out all the pictures along this side bar to help give you ideas! Happy creating friends!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Cezanne inspired Still Life
Week 6
Oct 14th-Oct 23rd
Project | Remote Art At home Week 6
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! For your fifth assignment, you are being asked to create a still life inspired by the French artist Paul Cezanne.
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
*Paper 8x10 is fine Would recommend you have some type of paper that you can paint on (meaning thicker than copy paper)
*Paint brushes
*Paint
*Water dish
*paper towel
*ruler or a straight edge of some sort
*pencil
*black crayon to outline your still life
*If you don't have paint, you can use crayola markers and add water to the markers to make the colors bleed like paint!
VOCABULARY
Still Life
Analogous colors (two colors on a color wheel that are right next to each other) Example Red and Red orange are neighbors on the color wheel (right next door to each other!)
Friendly reminder If you don't have paint, use markers and you can add water to your marker to smear the colors which turns into paint like watercolors!
Good luck and happy creating!
Please watch this quick demo video
to get you started!
(video is posted along left side)
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Remember to check out all the pictures along this side bar to help give you ideas! Happy creating friends!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Kusama Inspired Pumpkin
Week 7
Oct 24-Nov 3rd
Project | Remote Art At home Week 7
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! For your sixth assignment, you are being asked to create a Pop Art inspired by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
My Kinder, 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade students make sure you refer to the how to draw a pumpkin picture if you need help! This is the exact handout we are using in class right now!
DRAW BIG FILL THE SPACE OF YOUR PAPER!
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
*Paper 8x10 is fine or 9x12
*SCISSORS
*PENCIL
*GLUE
*SHARPIE
* TWO PIECES of Construction paper The first piece of paper needs to be a shade of ORANGE for the pumpkin
The second piece of paper is (pick a color your choice) For the background
*pencil
VOCABULARY
POP ART
COMPLIMENTARY COLORS (two colors on a color wheel that are directly across from each other) Example Reds compliment is Green. Blue's compliment is Orange. Yellow's compliment is Purple.
Friendly reminder If you don't have paint, use markers and you can add water to your marker to smear the colors which turns into paint like watercolors!
Good luck and happy creating!
Please watch this quick demo video
to get you started!
(video is posted along left side)
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Remember to check out all the pictures along this side bar to help give you ideas! Happy creating friends!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Positive Negative Fall Leaves
Week 8
Nov 4th-12th
Project | Remote Art At home Week 8
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! For your seventh assignment, you are being asked to a positive negative leaf project. Positive space refers to areas where the subject is positioned. Negative space is the area surrounding the subject. Or in other words, positive space is the main focus area while the negative space is the background.
You will need to download this worksheet click HERE of leaves to print it then cut out!
You can choose which leaf template you like best! Cutting the leaves out will be great fine motor skills for every age to work on at home! Yes even you my big 5th graders! Take your time cutting slowly.
Parents/Adults let your kids do the cutting please! Thank you!
You are more than welcome to find your own leaf template on the web as well!
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
*Paper 8x10 is fine or 9x12 to paint on (Something thicker than copy paper)
*SCISSORS
*PENCIL
*paint or markers
*crayon or oil pastels
* Leaf template
*paintbrush
VOCABULARY
Positive Space
Negative Space
Friendly reminder If you don't have paint, use markers and you can add water to your marker to smear the colors which turns into paint like watercolors!
Good luck and happy creating!
Please watch this quick demo video
to get you started!
(video is posted along left side)
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Remember to check out all the pictures along this side bar to help give you ideas! Happy creating friends!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Abstract Word Art
Week 9
Nov 13th-23rd
Project | Remote Art At home Week 9
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! For your eighth assignment, you are being asked to create an abstract word design. Let's create an abstract word-painting! This one is fun and easy. All you'll need is a piece of paper, a permanent marker, water-based markers, a cup of water and a paintbrush. When you are finished with this painting, try painting your name as the words or someone else's name, like mom or dad! Let's get started:
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
*Paper 8x10 is fine Would recommend you have some type of paper that you can paint on (meaning thicker than copy paper)
*Paint brushes
*Markers or paint
*Water dish
*paper towel
*PERMANENT MARKER LIKE A SHARPIE!
*pencil
VOCABULARY
ABSTRACT ART
ELEMENTS OF ART
*Line *Shape *Color *Value *Texture *Form *Space
Please watch this quick demo video
to get you started!
(video is posted along left side)
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My K-2 art students your art should be one word on each line or your name on each line. Example would be like your first name on the first line your middle name on the middle line and your last name on the last line. Other wise choose 3 different words that describe you to put on each line!
My 3rd, 4th 5th grade students, you can put more than one word on the lines to FILL THE SPACE.
Remember to check out all the pictures along this side bar to help give you ideas! Happy creating friends!
Again parents, you may help a little if needed, but please let your child do the writing! Coach them as they make their letters having to touch from the top of the curvy line to the bottom one! This is exactly what would happen inside the art room! :)
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
One word on each line for Kinder, 1st, 2nd graders as it shows in the video below.
3rd, 4th 5th see examples below your art should have more than one word on each line
Found Object Turkeys
Week 10
Nov 24-Dec 2nd
Project | Remote Art At home Week 10
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! For your ninth assignment, you are being asked to create your own household found object turkeys made up of found objects around your home! Remember the more random objects you find to make your turkey's body and feathers of color look "fuller" the better it will turn out!
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
Objects, food, toys, junk, any colorful object you name it! Whatever you have at home to do this!
laptop or camera to photograph your name
a wall or place with natural lighting for a good photo op!
No video this week! This is very similar to your color wheel assignment!
Have fun and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Remember to check out all the pictures along this side bar to help give you ideas! Happy creating friends!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Marker Snowmen
Week 11
Dec 3rd-12th
Project | Remote Art At home Week 11
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! For your tenth assignment, you are being asked to create a winter snowman using the marker for paint technique! In art we have been spending some time throughout the grade levels discussing what "Cropping" in in art and in artwork. Crop means that we "don't see" all of an object and or drawing. The Artist chooses to only show a part or a section of their artwork. For this snowman, you will need to CROP the bottom part of your snowman! This means when you draw your snowman, the head and belly will be the largest part on your papers!
You will NEED 2 plates to trace for his head to create a perfect circle and one for the body! ASK YOUR PARENTS for the plates please!
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
Plate, pencil to trace, sharpie (MUST BE PERMANENT MARKER) Markers, water, water cup, markers, paper towel.
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Use the smaller plate to draw the head of the snowman in the middle of the page.
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Use the larger plate to draw the body of the snowman, slightly overlapping (behind) the head.
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Draw in the eyes, smile & buttons with circles.
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Draw the carrot nose as cone. You can use a yellow oil pastel to outline,(or crayon if you don't have pastels) then paint with orange paint later.
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Draw all other details like hats, scarves, mittens, arms, & hills.
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Use a brown oil pastel for the branch arms.
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Outline everything in Sharpie.
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Use a blue Crayola marker to draw a line INSIDE the outline of the head & body.
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Use a paint brush & water to gently rub against the blue line, making it bleed into the head. Add more water if a harsh line is formed-the goal is for the color to fade into white (the color of the paper).
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Use colored markers to color the buttons, scarves & mittens with the same bleeding process.
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Let dry.
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Use white oil pastels if you have them otherwise use crayon to draw snow & swirly lines (like Van Gogh’s Starry Night).
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Finally, paint the background with watercolors & see the watercolor resist happen-Magic!
Please watch this quick demo video
to get you started!
(video is posted along left side) it's sped up a bit so pause as needed or watch it again and again as needed!
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Remember to check out all the pictures along this side bar to help give you ideas! Happy creating friends!
Friendly reminder to parents, you may help a little if needed, but please let your child do the tracing! 4th and 5th graders you are expected to do all your own tracing! I don't expect Kinder, 1st, or 2nd to have as detailed snowmen assignments as the example shown, but I do expect my 3rd, 4th and 5th graders to have something pretty close to the example.
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
CATCH UP TIME
Week 12
Dec 13th
Project | Remote Art At home Week 12
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! PLEASE use this final week before Christmas Break to catch up on all the 2nd quarter art assignments. There are QUITE A FEW students who have not turned in any assignments!
Please use this time to turn in late and or missing work.
Make sure you upload it to padlet and put your NAME and teachers name on it to receive credit!
NO NEW ASSIGNMENTS THIS WEEK.
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE
Project | Remote Art At home Week 13
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello VRA students! Welcome back! Hopefully most of you have been able to return to face to face learning this semester!
Your first assignment of the new year is to create several snowfakes on watercolor paper using a salt techinque. Students will learn about radial symmetry and the formation of snowflakes. Then students will use this knowledge to create a watercolor-resist painting.
PARENTS PLEASE NOTE
If you haven't done so already, now would be a good time to buy a few art supplies that are the same of which we are using in the classroom.
A pack of water color paper from Michaels or walmart would be very helpful, a sharpie marker, and crayola water colors. This assignment will need specific art supplies.
I've done my best to use items you may have already had around your own home, but we are getting to the point in the school year where assignments are going to get more in depth and require more than just basic supplies.
For this assignment you will need:
Watercolor paper
Paintbrush
Water dish
paper towel
TABLE SALT
White Crayon or white oil pastel (HAS TO BE WHITE)
Download Hexagon handout to print and cut out HERE
**REMINDER when you upload assignments you MUST put your name and your TEACHERS NAME on the assignment in order to receive credit!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Winter Snowflakes
Week 13
January
4-14th 2021
examples of how you can draw your own snow flakes refer to this handout to get ideas!
Laurel Burch Cats
Week 14
January
19-27th 2021
Project | Remote Art At home Week 14
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
American artist, Laurel Burch, is most well known for her artwork of colorful and patterned cats. In addition to her art, she was a businesswoman, selling her art and jewelry, often and mass producing for affordability for all. This lesson encompasses her flair for color and pattern with Burch's love of cats! A dog template is added for any dog loving students! To get started, please watch the first video posted on the left so you can learn a little bit about Laurel Burch!
Then watch the second video for the TUTORIAL step by step how to draw your cat!
REMEMBER YOUNGER STUDENTS TO PAUSE THE VIDEO when you are drawing so you can catch up!
For this assignment you will need:
Paper
Sharpie Marker
Markers
or Paint!
Handouts
Pencil
eraser
Once you have drawn your cat, sharpie it, then begin to fill your cat with PATTERNS! If you plan to paint, use sharpie first before you paint!
Happy creating VRA students! Can't wait to see what you come up with!
**REMINDER when you upload assignments you MUST put your name and your TEACHERS NAME on the assignment in order to receive credit!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Britto Hearts
Student examples
Week 15
February
1st-7th 2021
Project | Remote Art At home Week 15
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Romero Britto (born October 6, 1963) is a Brazilian artist, painter, serigrapher, and sculptor. He combines elements of cubism, pop art, and graffiti painting in his work, using vibrant colors and bold patterns as a visual expression of hope, dreams, and happiness.
Please watch the video tutorial for the lesson and backround on Romero Britto!
REMEMBER YOUNGER STUDENTS TO PAUSE THE VIDEO when you are drawing so you can catch up!
For this assignment you will need:
White Paper 9x12 or bigger
Sharpie Marker
Markers
or Paint!
Heart Template
Pencil
eraser
Download heart TEMPLATE TRACER HERE
Happy creating VRA students! Can't wait to see what you come up with!
Gentle reminder for parents of my Kinder, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students.
It's imperative that you have your child DO THE TRACING. This exact skill is something my Kinder 1st grade students are doing in person in class. Having to hold the tracer with one hand and push their pencil with the other WITHOUT help from an adult!
*** Fine motor skills need to be worked on and done by your child alone, not by the adult! Thanks so much!
**REMINDER when you upload assignments you MUST put your name and your TEACHERS NAME on the assignment in order to receive credit!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Project | Remote Art At home Week 16
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Chris Uphues is a painter, street artist and designer best known for his signature hearts that can be found wheat pasted and in murals!
This week's lesson we are really focusing on "composition" or the arrangement of your placement of your hearts on your paper!
Please watch the video tutorials for the lesson and backround on Chris Uphues (there are TWO videos to watch this week)
REMEMBER YOUNGER STUDENTS TO PAUSE THE VIDEO when you are drawing so you can catch up!
For this assignment you will need:
dry erase board (if you don't have one you can practice on scratch paper or printer paper at home)
White Paper 9x12 or bigger
Sharpie Marker
Pencil
Markers
or Paint!
eraser
water
paint brush
Download the EYES NOSE MOUTH Example sheet HERE
Download example heart sheet HERE
Happy creating VRA students! Can't wait to see what you come up with!
**REMINDER when you upload assignments you MUST put your name and your TEACHERS NAME on the assignment in order to receive credit!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Week 16
February
8th-19th 2021
Chris Uphues
Student examples
Salt Dough Clay Project
Week 17-19
February-24th March 12th
2021
Project | Remote Art At home Week 17, 18 and 19th
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
THIS IS A 3 WEEK PROJECT as it takes a week to dry!!!!
Hello VRA artists, this week's lesson is going to have you get really hands on! You will be creating your own clay project by making the clay out of salt dough.
**********In the first video it will tell you to bake in the oven for 3 hours. You WILL NOT do this step. Instead, you will place your project outside preferably in the sun to air dry for a week. ******
Please watch both video tutorials for the lessons. You may pick either of the videos as your assignment. For the hand bowl project, you do NOT need an exacto knife or board, in real art class we use sharp pencils as our tools to cut (trace around the hands/fingers) Just a heads up on that part!
For this assignment you will need:
First WEEK:
Salt 1/4 cup
Flour 1/2 cup
Mixing Bowl and spoon
Cutting board
Water 1/4 cup
Parchment paper
Possible cookie cutters (for younger K-2 friends)
Pencil (is used a a good hole poker and to trace/cut around the fingers of your hand bowl should you do that project)
WEEK 2 (PROJECT DRIES ALL WEEK)
3rd Week you will need:
Acrylic Craft paint (the tiny bottles from walmart work splendid!)
paint brush
Mod Podge (not necessary but really is the best part it's what gives your clay project that magic shine! Just as if you were using real glaze in art class!) If you don't use it, your clay will just have paint with a matte surface to it, no shine.
(Both Mod Podge and Acrylic paint are both sold at walmart, amazon and target for super cheap prices)
FOR THIS PROJECT I AM ASKING YOU to submit a PHOTO OF YOU in the picture actually making your salt dough! This needs to be done to receive credit on padlet! I should see two pictures, one of you making the dough, and another of your final project!
**REMINDER when you upload assignments you MUST put your name and your TEACHERS NAME on the assignment in order to receive credit!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Project | Remote Art At home Week 20
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello amazing VRA artists! This week's lesson is from the amazing liberty pines art teacher who shared this with other art teachers in the district!
In the video, she mentions downloading the shamrock in schoology, but I have it right here for you on this page to access it easily!
Please watch the video in its entirety then begin the lesson! As always, remember to pause the video as you go if needed!
For this assignment you will need:
Sharpie or Permanent Marker
9x12 or larger heavyweight paper such as cardstock thickness or heavier (no copy paper as you cannot paint on copy paper)
Markers (you'll want cold colors Greens, purples, and blues
water cup
paint brush
table salt
Download Shamrock template HERE
**REMINDER when you upload assignments you MUST put your name and your TEACHERS NAME on the assignment in order to receive credit!
When you are ready, you will upload your assignment HERE!
Project | Remote Art At home Week 21 through the end of the school year
ALL GRADES Kinder-5th
Hello amazing VRA artists! As it should of been communicated to you through schoolgy and through your new online teachers, all art assignments can now be found on a Bitmoji classroom depending on your grade. I will link each grade level here. Instead uploading to padlet like you've been doing all year, you'll have to complete whats known as an "Exit Ticket" in order to recieve credit for art assignments here on out! Make sure you still remember to put your name on the ticket and your teacher, home school, etc etc.
If you are missing assignments, I will continue to leave the assignments up on this page from previous weeks, and you will need to upload those to padlet, but from here on out till June, you'll only be submitting an exit ticket for credit.
KINDER and 1st grade Bitmoji Classroom click HERE
2nd and 3rd grade Bitmoji Classroom click HERE
4th and 5th grade Bitmoji Classroom click HERE
Reminder once you click on the link, you need to be in PRESENT MODE to actually click around the classroom to view stuff!
I made a quick video to help you! Please watch it if needed!
Cubist Shamrock
Week 20
March 13-20th
2021
Bitmoji Classroom for the remainder of the school year
Week 20
March 13-20th
2021
Week 21
March 21st-till
June
Kinder and 1st grade Bitmoji Art Classroom
2nd and 3rd grade Bitmoji Art Classroom
