2/3s Paint Self-Portraits

The 2/3s spent some focused time looking in their mirrors and trying to capture their features and coloring. Once drawn, these are painted with tempera paint.

Checking in the mirror

Painting the face

Mixing the right color

Painting the background

Matching the hair color

Placing the eyes in the oval

K/1s Draw, Paint and Stuff African Animals

Each K/1 student is studying a particular African animal. In art they draw their animal working from a photograph, and then paint it with watercolors. Once this is completed, they again draw their animal, but this time on very large

Painting a lion

A giraffe is carefully painted

brown craft paper. This animal image is painted, duplicated and then stuffed with newspaper and sewn together with yarn. They will find their places in the classroom celebration of African work at the end of the school year.

Painting the big cobra

Cutting out the meerkat

Adding spots

Painting the second side for the gorilla

Sewing an elephant

Sewing the leopard

Part of the classroom display with paintings and animals

The zebra up close

Animals outside the African hut

AHut with occupants

The hyena finished

The beginnings of the hyena

4/5s Draw Self-Portraits

Annually all Parker students in grades K-8 draw or paint a head and shoulders self-portrait. It is wonderful to see them all displayed in the hall and to notice the developmental differences through the grades. The portraits are then turned into the next year's school calendar. The 4/5s begin this lesson by discussing different shapes of faces and the placement of facial features in relation to each other. Looking in the mirror they notice what they really look like and then try to capture that using colored pencils.

Beginning the self-portrait

Adding the background

The head takes form

Checking with the mirror