LEARNING INTENTIONS: To use shapes to draw a farm scene- a cow in green pasture with a red barn. To use skills of tracing, drawing, colouring, cutting, gluing, painting and techniques of making texture. To make red painted paper adding horizontal or vertical lines as texture for a barn. SUCCESS CRITERIA: I can trace/ draw … Continue reading Holstein Cow & Barn- Prep art lesson
Fauvist Cows ~ water soluble pastel LEARNING INTENTIONS: Students will explore the Fauvist movement by drawing a cow and and colouring with bold, bright colours. To follow a guided drawing of a cow’s head and use bold colours, like the “Fauves”. SUCCESS CRITERIA: I can follow directions to draw a large cow’s head that fills … Continue reading Fauvist Cows~ by Prep/ Foundation
The Prep students made a mixed media artwork of the cow jumping over the moon from the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle, the cow jumped over the Moon". The foil moon idea came from @monpetitsoukdidees and it worked really well. They used SHAPE to help them draw parts of a cow using a rectangle for … Continue reading “The Cow Jumped over the Moon!” Prep Art lesson
Models made with air dry clay and Crayola Model Magic. Students used a combination of materials to make these Peter Diem inspired models. The Body & Head: Air dry clay was used to form the body. Students formed a small pinch pot into a rounded shape, pulling and shaping legs so that it would stand. … Continue reading Peter Diem inspired Cow sculpture~ Year 3-4 art lesson
Peter Diem inspired cows By Year 3/4 students Peter Diem (born 1945) is a Dutch artist well known for his expressive use of colour and texture in his art. "He gained worldwide fame because of his vivid paintings and lively, colourful representations of Dutch cows." We viewed the Peter Diem – Cows website for examples … Continue reading Crazy Cows ~ Peter Diem inspired Year 3-4 art lesson
Our school was doing a "Discover Dairy" inquiry unit and so we were making lots of artworks of cows! The inspiration for this lesson was from "paper paintings" of cows by Elizabeth St Hilaire (Nelson) "Paper Paintings" by Elizabeth St Hilaire The students looked at some St Hilaire's "paper painted" cows and inferred the techniques … Continue reading COLLAGE COWS ~ Inspired by Elizabeth St Hilaire. Year 5/6 art lesson.
This lesson is adaptable to different levels and using various materials. This particular lesson was done with Year 3/4's using the Brushes Redux App on ipads. They chose an animal and then searched for an image suitable to use, bringing it into Brushes App and using the layers, colour and brushstrokes to give appropriate textures … Continue reading Animal Eyes: Close Up – Paula Wiegmink inspired
