Submitted by Mary on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 7:05pm
One of the pirate books that I read to the kids had some beautiful illustrations of a stormy sea so I decided we should tackle some "stormy" art work. I felt like this subject would give an opportunity to talk about line movement and low value color schemes that can reflect a feeling of roughness and then when the lines become softer it reflects a feeling of calm and peace. The ship pictures were done with oil pastels and we tried to capture what it looked like when the ship was in a night storm.
Submitted by Mary on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 7:30pm
My school has had a long standing tradition to pick a country to base the art curriculum on for that year, so last year I chose the Caribbean Islands. The kids had fun painting tropical fish, designing their own treasure maps, creating their own Pirates of the Caribbean and learning about the beautiful Haitian art including the tap tap buses. We were also very lucky to have some parents in our school who were from the Caribbean and they helped by providing books and artifacts from the islands. My first post will be pictures of the pirate self portraits that the kids did.
