by Dennas Davis | Oct 17, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW The week before Halloween, we practice painting fun, simple faces in tempera paints, and then paint a face on a real pumpkin using grown-up acrylic paints. It’s also a great time for a party: have parents bring some drinks or snacks, and have students each...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 3, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will learn that doing several variations of their art gives them a choice, which is often much better than going with your first idea. We’ll play-act that they are a boss. They’re also the boss of their art, and can move shapes around until they like...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 26, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Artists enjoy drawing a still life that features plants, and then using watercolors to paint it. There is some review of shadows and highlights during the artwork time. After a break, the kids cut jungle-like shapes out of colored papers and use them to make...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 19, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students use drawing skills to create a large vase and flower collage with mixed media: Oil pastels, kraft paper, cutting, and gluing. Composition is worked on as they apply the shapes they’ve drawn and cut. – – – Grades K – 2 Week of...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 12, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students have fun with a playful subject, underscoring the idea that “the joy of an artist will be evident in their finished art”. The concept of Air Shapes is revisited. Students learn to draw on “both sides of the line“, and draw the air inside a vase...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 5, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW This is a great lesson for learning a basic concept for drawing accurately, but without the students getting bogged down in lesson concepts. When drawing it helps artists to be able to draw the air shapes (negative shapes) that are in-between other things. It...
