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 To celebrate my reaching one hundred followers I've decided to list 100 popular artists that are taught in elementary art.   Here they are in no particular order: 

Antoni Gaudi                      

Keith Haring                      

 Henri Matisse                   

 Andy Goldsworthy                         

 Gustav Klimt

Laurel Birch                                          

 Pablo Picasso                      

Franz Mark    

Christo & Jean Claude                                    

Amadeo Modigliani    

                                    

 Wayne Thiebaud    

 Romare Bearden                               

 Jeff Koons                            

Wassily Kandinsky                          Grant Wood

Thomas Cole                                                    

 Jackson Pollock                 

 Milton Avery                                      

Jasper Johns                                             

 Joan Miro    

                         

Rene Magritte                                   

Mary Cassatt                                          

Jean Debuffet  

Edgar Degas

Edvard Munch

Eduard Manet

Henri de Toulouse Lauturec

James Rizzi

Hundertwasser

Berthe Morisot   

                               

Diego Rivera                                                 

 Auguste Rodin                  

 Rembrandt Von Rijn                       

Louis Comfort Tiffany    

Rosina Watchmeister

Charles Demuth

Leo Sewell

Wolfe Kahn

Kimmy Cantrell

George Rodrique

Dr. Seuss

Alberto Giacometti

Henry Moore

Frank Gehry

Chuck Close

Takashi Murakami

Lois Malliou Jones

Romare Bearden

Carly Hardy

Charley Harper     

Jon Scieszka

Karla Gerard

T.R. Makc

Grandma Moses                 

 Franz Marc                           

Georges Braque                                                

Victor Vasarely

Yayoi Kusama                                    

Robert Rauschenburg   

 I.M. Pei (architect)                          

 Keith Haring

Gustav Klimt

George Braque

Katsushika Hokusai

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

Dale Chihuly

Aaron Douglas

Faith Ringgold

Piet Mondrian

Henri Rousseau

Audrey flack

Frank Stella

Salvador Dalu

Paul Cezanne

Jasper Johns

Vincent van Gogh

Do Ho Su

Louise Nevelson

Romero Britto

Peter Max        

Yayoi Kusama

Fred Babb

Rube Goldberg

Giuseppe Arcimboldo  

Robert Delaunay

Georgia O'Keeffe

Jacob Lawrence

Janet Fish

Natasha Westcoat

Banksy

Georges Seurat

Andre Derain

Leonardo Da Vinci

Michelangelo

Kara Walker

Judy Chicago

David Wiesner

Josef Albers

Diego Rivera  

Claude Monet      

Do you have any other artists you particularly like to teach in your classroom?  If so post them below! 

  

 

 

5th grade Amate Bark Painting

Last year the other art teacher in our school did this lesson with a 3rd grade class using neon paint.  After the lesson was complete I noticed that a lot of the details got lost because of how small the students drew their designs.  The paint just wasn't the appropriate medium for such tiny detailed images and so this year I decided to bump the project up to 5th grade and and instead of paint use neon chalk pastels.

  I gave each table a reference packet of sheets with birds, various flora, lizards, and designs to use as inspiration.  Students tore the edges of the paper to give it a hand-made look and then drew compositions based on a few images I showed them in a Powerpoint.  They then outlined their drawing in Sharpie and then colored everything in.  I gave them Q-tips to blend the tiny areas of their paper and warned them of over-blending the chalks (making the color dull).  Overall they did a great job and there is just something very striking about neon colors on brown paper mounted on black.  These are pretty large too, about 14x18" so they are quite striking!

I got a rug!

3  years in the making...I've finally gotten my rug.  I've been asking for a while and everyone I mention the idea to has said "a rug in the art room? No way...it would get destroyed in a week!" Well it's been 9 school days and still no sign of destruction, lol.  However, it is next to the sinks so I do keep a hawks eye on my kids when they wash their hands.  Finally no more saying "okay everyone move in and move up, we're too spread out."  Now I just say "everyone, sit in a square" and voila, a neatly arranged class! Ah, its the little things that mean the most!! :)

2nd Grade Chalk Pastel Landscapes

Who doesn't love a good glue and chalk pastel project now and again? This ones an oldie but goodie...Simply use glue to 'draw' the landscap or object of your choosing, let dry, and fill in with the chalks!  As my students would say, "easy peasy lemon squeezy", and the results almost always look great.

1st grade Starry Nights

 

 I created this lesson on the fly, class by class deciding the change things up a little as I went.  Overall the lesson was focused on line, texture, and shape.  I had a few classes create the background (sky) on black paper with chalk pastels and glitter and then I changed it up and had the remaining classes work on white paper with oil pastels and water color resit.  I like the white paper resist better you see the variety of lines better and the is more vibrant than the chalks.  Under the sky, I  took a period and had students use bubble wrap and paint scrapers to create various textures in the same blues, greens, and purples.  The following period the kids used that paper to create different buildings.  For last details students used neon paint over the top half to create different kinds of lines and then markers to add details like windows, roofs, sidewalks, and trees to their buildings.

My 3rd graders are such a SCREAM!

Evdard Munch is not necessarily the most appropriate artist to study for elementary art students, but his series of 'Screams' is an instantly recognizable and hugely famous work of art.  In terms of the artist himself, I teach my kids some facts about his life and how Expressionism is a style of art that emphasizes color as a way to show the artists feelings as opposed to simply copying colors observed from real life.  I have included the PowerPoint I used for the project below:

 

Edvard Munch Presentation

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Overall, I LOVED this project...Out of all the projects I've taught over 5 years, this is definitely one of my favorites.  What was great about this project was that everyone came out with great results. Because the painting could be abstract and slightly 'messy', the end results were great no matter how neatly or precise each student painted.  My students that tend to rush through their projects or who don't necessarily pay attention to details in their work even had great result.  One of the most effective aspects of the project was the last step which constituted layering some oil pastels on top of the paint which really helped to emphasize line and movement within the work. Also, the photo's of the silly student faces really added humor and interest to the artworks. Here are a few of the finished pieces: