Winter Birds

2nd grade uses up every last minute of art class to finish these fabulous mixed-media bird collages!

Line Patterned Cats

2nd Grade draws overlapping cats, filled with various kinds of line patterns to show movement.  Inspired by California artist Laurel Burch, these cats were having a party!

VAN GOGH IRISES

2nd graders are in some serious competition with Van Gogh... Take a look at all the different ways each student renders a "stoke", how they illustrate movement, and how they perceive Van Gogh's Painting.!! Love these. 

SUNFLOWER BOWLS

2nd grade displayed how capable and smart they are with these Sunflower Bowls. This project required your brain to think about positive and negative space and to conceptualize in 3D before achieving a final product. It is the process that counts! 

Dragons, Dragons!

2nd Grade dives into their imaginations to draw and paint a Dragon. We learned how to mix secondary colors and how to use the back of our paint brushes for a non-conventional way to texturize our fire-breathing friends!

Winter Birds II

This is round 2 of the 2nd grade Shape lesson. After some practice getting the hang of the procedure in the first round, you can view it here, these Male Western Tanager's came out just as fantastic as the American Robin's and Buntings. The only difference is this group used a 2nd tree branch.

Concepts included were geometric shapes, overlapping shapes, ornamentation of shapes, and an introduction to 3-dimensional rendering of shapes.

Winter Birds I

2nd Grade did such a great job with these Shape Birds! We learned how to recognize the basic shapes and proportions of each body part in photographs of 2 birds found locally in Northern California: the American Robin and the Lazuli Bunting.

If the Dinosaurs Came Back

2nd graders made me jealous today!
We had some fun with our imaginations in these Line drawings inspired by the book,
"If the Dinosaurs Came Back" by Gerard Most. This book was read to me by my Mom when I was a kid and to this day, I am still fascinated by dinosaurs. Who isn't!

Anansi the Spider

2nd Grade enjoyed listening to the story, Anansi the Spider. Paying close attention to Gerald McDermott's great illustrations including various line designs, shapes and patterns, students drew a spider web.