4th Grade Florescent Mandalas...

This was such a fun project...everyone just loved it. It is not my lesson, I got this idea from Natalie Waggenspack. You need to follow her Instagram page @natty241 or her blog at www.elementaryartfun.blogspot.com Natalie is an amazingly talented elementary art teacher. We use to work in the same school district so I can tell you first hand how awesome she is! 

I did this with 4th grade and they came out great! 

I had my kiddos do this project a little differently from Natalie's.

We use 18 x 24 inch paper and neon tempera cake paint. 

We started in the center and worked our way out to the edges.

The paper was so big I had kids working all over the floor.

They loved it.

When the neon paint circles covered the entire page I gave the kids black watered-down tempera paint to create their designs with. 

This is the paint we used, you can buy it HERE on Amazon. 

This is our inspiration piece from @natty241

Isn't is amazing!

Art Club Paper Weaving...

In my effort to use every scrap of paper possible...Advanced Art Club created paper weavings with the cut ends of the art work I mounted for the last art show...It was a lot of fun and so colorful!

Sunset on the Gulf...

So just getting back from my beach vacation this past Christmas I wanted to do a sunset theme painting because that is just what we do on the island every night, watch the sunset!

So the first step is to use watered down black tempera paint for the black lines.

Then allow that to dry.

We discussed warm and cool colors and value changes.

I showed students how adding more or less water to their brushes changes the colors 

from more intense with less water to washed out with lots of water. 

We also worked in layering the same color to add changes in value. 

The last step is to go back and add designs on top of the work using a darker or lighter value of the same color.