Sep 2, 2012

Cloudscapes


I was (and am) really taken with these cloudscapes painted by a recent 5/6 class. My favourite thing about them, and probably my personal benchmark for a great art lesson, is that each students' art is completely unique. Every child chooses their colour, their lines, their shapes, and it becomes their own.

The class was in the thick of a weather unit and had been learning about the science of clouds all week. I made a brief photo slideshow of sky scenes with various cloud types, formations and colours. We viewed this and discussed the colours and light we could see, and how they might imitate these. Some sketched a few pencil guidelines first, others went straight for the paint. The next day a few students added some touches of oil pastel too.


The very bottom left is just a very close crop of someone's blue to complete the four way window which seems to be my default display mode. I've been posting mostly older students work of late, but I will endeavour to have some work by younger students to share next week. Yes, posting once a week is all I can manage — I'm in awe of how prolific some of my fellow bloggers are!


11 comments:

  1. This is an awesome project.
    Your students did such a wonderful job with lines, colors and shapes.

    The firs set is my favorite.

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  2. Thanks : )
    I agree, those 4 have really great control of texture and tone.

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  3. The paintings your students made are beautiful! They did a great job with their colors!

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  4. Phyl from There's a Dragon In My Art Room commented about you in a blog post...so I thought I'd check ya out. Some great stuff going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep up the amazing work man. Not a ton of men elementary art teachers out there...good to see though.
    Mr. E from http://artwithmre.blogspot.com

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  5. Thanks Ted, much appreciated : ) We do seem to be a minority within the art teaching blogosphere!

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  6. I too appreciate the uniqueness of each piece, sometimes the best lessons are the ones right in front of us.

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  7. So true, thanks Gabriela : )

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  8. These are awesome! Love it!

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