Stacked Critters

Fridays are a busy day in the Art Room. 

On Friday, I teach  12 back to back 20 minute classes. Yes 12!  I like to call it "Freaky Friday" and yes there are plenty of  "Art Tornados" on Friday... But it is all in good fun!

 I usually have centers for all students and an Art Challenge to keep students engaged.

I'm always searching for good art challenges. I came across a stacked animal drawing  on a website called drawinghowtodraw.com
It has great resources and step by step drawings. 

So I put my own twist on it and tweaked it just a tad. 

For this challenge, students did a draw along, colored, and painted the background. ALL in 20 Minutes! I have to say, K - 3rd really took to this challenge and their results were so cute...see for yourself..

Friday's Art Challenge Example

 

On art challenges, I teach students to draw with no fear and go straight to Sharpie. It is part of the Challenge and it saves us time. Really, who has time to trace when you have 20 mins to make a masterpiece! Plus, if the students make a"mistake,"  they are encouraged to turn it into something unique.

After drawing, students colored with Crayon and painted the backgrounds with Tempera Cakes.

These little critter babies came out really cute, and the kids really loved them too.

 Materials:

7 x 12 paper

Sharpie

Crayons

 Tempera Cakes

Line Landscapes

2nd Grade created these Awesome Line Landscapes. We watched a fun little video that showed how Foreground, Middle Ground, and Background helps create perspective and point of view. Students drew a landscape using overlapped shapes to create distance that shows Near and Far. 

After drawing the landscape, students outlined their work with Sharpie. They then used washable markers and treated the markers like watercolor. Tracing their shapes using thick lines and then going over the marker with a wet brush to disperse the color. Doing this technique created beautiful results. 

Students were encouraged to mix colors, push value, and create fun hues.

I am so happy how they turned out. 

Each landscape is uniquely colorful & cheerful!

Everyone was super successful and proud! 

Materials Used:

11 x 14 Mix Media Paper

Washable Markers

Black Sharpie

Brushes/ Cups for Water