K-3 Swimming Pictures

To begin the year in K-3 art the students thought back to the summer and their opportunities to go swimming. They looked at pictures of people swimming, and noticed the positions of their bodies stretched out in the water. They then drew themselves swimming, colored them with oil pastels, and painted over that with a blue wash sprinkled with salt to simulate the feeling of being in moving water. A border of blue bubbly circles completed this project.

Fitting in the figure

heavy application of oil pastel

Check out the goggles

Wading in the waist deep water

Floating 

K/1s Paint Birds

Continuing the theme of making a shape into something specific, the K/1s listened to the book, Mouse Shapes, by Ellen Stoll Walsh and then looked at the shapes you would need to draw a bird. Starting with half circles and triangles they each drew a large bird, went over the lines with black crayon and added watercolor for a crayon resist. The results are completely engaging.

Painting stripes

Adding the ground

A blue bird!