Stargate Elementary Art

Recommended for any grade level!  Hello Artists!      I wanted to remind everyone that I will be checking my email over the summer if you want to share a picture of an art project with me.  I will also occasionally post art-making ideas, videos, and articles if you are interested in checking the blog periodically.      Also, if you haven't checked out the art show yet, please click here  https://photos.app.goo.gl/kgQECKhX4kKvh7Lv5  and check it out.  Feel free to encourage others with positive comments on their artwork. Objective: To create artwork using a straw and watercolor to blow different types of designs by first watching a demonstration video made by Mrs. Beatty and looking at some examples.  Supplies needed: watercolor, brush, and straw End results from demonstration:

Recommended for any grade level!  Hello Artists!      I wanted to remind everyone that I will be checking my email over the summer if you want to share a picture of an art project with me.  I will also occasionally post art-making ideas, videos, and articles if you are interested in checking the blog periodically.      Also, if you haven't checked out the art show yet, please click here  https://photos.app.goo.gl/kgQECKhX4kKvh7Lv5  and check it out.  Feel free to encourage others with positive comments on their artwork. Objective: To know how to use watercolor pencils by watching a demonstration video made by Mrs. Beatty and experimenting with watercolor pencil.  The end result of the watercolor pencil demonstration: Here is a video on the rarest pigments(color) in the world:

Recommended for any grade level! Hello Artists!      I wanted to remind everyone that I will be checking my email over the summer if you want to share a picture of an art project with me.  I will also occasionally post art-making ideas, videos, and articles if you are interested in checking the blog periodically.      Also, if you haven't checked out the art show yet, please click here  https://photos.app.goo.gl/kgQECKhX4kKvh7Lv5  and check it out.  Feel free to encourage others with positive comments on their artwork. Objective: To know how to use watercolor crayons by watching a demonstration video made by Mrs. Beatty and experimenting with techniques. Here is the picture of the end result of techniques used in the video: Here is a video on the rarest pigments(color) in the world:

Recommended for any grade level! Hello Artists!      I wanted to remind everyone that I will be checking my email over the summer if you want to share a picture of an art project with me.  I will also occasionally post art-making ideas, videos, and articles if you are interested in checking the blog periodically.      Also, if you haven't checked out the art show yet, please click here  https://photos.app.goo.gl/kgQECKhX4kKvh7Lv5 and check it out.  Feel free to encourage others with positive comments on their artwork. Objective: To create a drawing by using a dice for a drawing game where you draw what you roll. Supplies: Something to draw with! The following are the dice games that you can use for the game.  If you do not have a dice then I have posted a template you can use to make a dice at home.

Recommended for grades 3rd-5th, but younger students could do this with a parent or older sibling's assistance.  Objective: To create a pendulum for painting using string, a water bottle(or old glue bottle), and watered down tempera paint. Materials needed:  larger and thicker pieces of paper like posterboard, scissors, string, tempera paint that you will water down or something similar, something to hold the paint(I used an old water bottle and took off the cap. I then hot-glued a glue cap to the water bottle, and took off the orange part part of the cap.  I also duct taped around the glue to make sure that it would not leak.) You could also make the container to hold the paint out of a soda bottle or a large paper or styrofoam cup.  You can get pretty creative with your invention.  I have seen people do this in many different ways. Hello Artists!         I made pendulum paintings at an art camp a few years ago.  A pendulum is a weight hung from a fixed point so

Recommended for grades K-5 Objective: To know and describe who John James Audubon was by reading about him and watching a short video. To describe different kinds of pattern in art by looking at a poster and identifying patterns in everyday life or in nature. Materials needed: paper, something to draw with What I used: waterproof micron pen and watercolor paint Hello Artists!       For this lesson, you are going to learn about the artist and ornithologist John James Audubon.  An ornithologist is someone who studies birds. Audubon was known for his drawings in the book titled The Birds of North America . Please watch the video below to see the drawings that he was famous for.  You can also see the pictures from his book by clicking on the link here  https://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america  and scrolling down.  I want you to be observant and look for patterns and repetition of color and shape on the birds.  Audubon also uses a great amount of detail in his drawings, which is

Recommended for any grade level Objectives: To know and describe who the artist Georgia O'Keefe was and what kind of artwork she was known for by watching a short video. Create a flower-inspired work of art by taking photographs of flowers in your yard and around the neighborhood to use as inspiration.  (The artwork could also just be the photographs that you take.) My nephew stopping to smell the roses. Hello Artists!    This school year is slowly coming to a close. I want you all to know that I am planning on posting various project ideas, art-related videos, and updates through-out the summer.  I will check my email through-out the summer too, so if you want to send me a picture, video, or anything else that is related to art, you will be able to reach me.    Around five years ago, my husband and I took a weekend to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico.  If you haven't been then you need to go!  We ate delicious food, went to various art galleries and markets, went on a

Recommended for grade 3rd-5th, but younger kids could do this with assistance from a parent or older sibling. Objective: To use a string to make abstract designs by dipping the string into paint, laying it on piece of paper, laying two pieces of paper over top, applying pressure with your free hand, and pulling the string out with your other hand. Materials needed: paper, thinner piece of string, water-based paint or ink...here are some options: watered down acrylic paint, watercolor, colored dye, colored ink, and if you are desperate then you could probably dye water a purple/blue color using blueberries. Hello Artists!       This school year is slowly coming to a close. I want you all to know that I am planning on posting various project ideas, art-related videos, and updates through-out the summer.  I will check my email through-out the summer too, so if you want to send me a picture, video, or anything else that is related to art, you will be able to reach me.       This

Recommended for grades K-5 Objective: To know and practice new ways to draw, paint, or create clouds in your artwork by looking at examples, watching a video, and experimenting.  To know how clouds are formed by watching a video. To know and describe different kinds of clouds by looking at an infographic.  To be observant of the clouds you see in the sky outside at different times of day and on different days of the weeks by seeing how they can be different colors, shapes, and sizes.   Materials needed: Lots of different options for this project, so you don't need anything specific.  Hello Artists,       We are focusing on clouds for this lesson.  I had so much fun making examples for this lesson.  There are so many ways for artists to make clouds and many more ways than the examples pictured here.  Clouds are fun to create because they don't have to look any certain way.  They are organic shapes meaning that they are not made up of perfec