by Dennas Davis | Nov 5, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will continue with cartooning, and work on cartoon hands and feet. Then we move on to creating crazy creatures and silly monsters. It's a fun day of cartoon art. Grades K – 2 Week of November 10 – 14 1 Hour & 30 Minutes Student Work...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 29, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will have tons of fun learning the parts of cartoon faces and practicing how to put them all together. they'll finish with a final cartoon in marker outlines and coloring with layers of oil pastels. Grades 1 – 2 Week of November 3 – 7 1...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 22, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students have fun drawing leaves from photos, and using oil pastels to color them. Then a straw and blow technique is used to create ink tree branches. The last project is to draw a tree in pencil and then wet the paper. Watercolors are used to create a soft...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 15, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will spend the whole day creating and working with lines: line inventing; color line art; charcoal line art; backwards line art (white on black paper); and a line art game. Grades 1 – 2 Week of October 20 – 24 1 Hour & 30 Minutes...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 1, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students are introduced to an important design element, The Most Important Spot, (emphasis). We hunt for shapes, using tracing paper to capture them from photos. Students will also work with warm vs. cool colors using oil pastels. Grades 1 – 2 Week of...
by Dennas Davis | Sep 24, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will have fun drawing and painting pigs in several projects. Simple shapes and symbols help us create pig cartoons with different expressions. More realistic pigs are drawn from photo reference, colors are mixed, and then they will paint the pig...
