A simple tiger drawing and painting with a background created with texture plates, oil pastels, and tempera paints ..read more

Thanks to The Rolling Art Room for this fun idea and Art with Mrs. E for the self-portrait drawing guide ..read more

It’s been several years since I did my NC Lighthouse lesson with students. My third graders learn all about North Carolina and I have missed doing this lesson with them! I decided to mix it up a little and include a Van Gogh/Starry Night thread along with the space/color elements. Looking forward to seeing the results from this change! We might add some sailboats to the water, depending on the time we have available ..read more

Value Disco Balls ..read more

My first graders have been learning about outerspace so I thought I would jump in and have some fun with foreshortening with some astronaut portraits. I made a step by step for how to draw. I think we will use oil pastels or crayons along with paint (mostly for the background.) I’ll add more photos once we finish ..read more

I recently came across the book, Kindness Grows by Britta Teckentrup and just fell in love with it. Then another art teacher posted a project of a tree inspired by Gustav Klimt and I decided I must bring these two things together for one of my grades. That grade is third grade and we will be creating these beautiful trees inspired by two other beautiful trees ..read more

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