Stay at Home School... Week 3

Hello, My Amazing Art Students.  Boy, do I miss hearing your voices and seeing your faces and creating with you!  I hope you and your families are staying home and staying safe and are healthy and strong!  Enjoy your time together!

Thank you for all the pictures of artwork you've been sharing with me!  I am so very impressed by your creativity.  I hope you've been enjoying your art challenges.  Remember, creating art does not just have to come from my challenge list.  If you feel like creating something totally different, DO IT!!  I just want your imaginations to be working and your creativity to continue to pour new beauty into our world right now! 

Here are WEEK THREE Art Challenges for you to try at home:

Y5-2nd Grade Art Lessons

Week 3: March 30- April 3

Lesson 1:  Silly Drawings and Details

• Draw a crab at a birthday party.
• Draw a seahorse in a blizzard.
• Draw a dinosaur crying.
• Draw an animal with arms for legs and legs for arms.

Lesson 2:  Learn about an Artist:  Greg Mike

Greg Mike creates murals on buildings.  When you watch this lesson by art teacher, Cassie Stephens, look for the LINES, SHAPES, and COLORS Greg Mike uses in his artwork.  The finished project is a collage made from cut paper. However, you could simply draw lots and lots of Loud Mouth characters and color them with crayon or marker!  Have fun creating and remember to keep the loud in your artwork, not in the house! :)

Loud Mouths inspired by Greg Mike

Lesson 3:  Creating with found objects

Challenge 1: Use 3D objects you can find around your house to build a sculpture.  Do you have blocks? LEGOs? Hot Wheels Cars? My Little Ponys? Shopkins? How could you use your toys to create art?

Challenge 2:  Drawing from observation.  Get a piece of paper or a tablet.  Using art materials or a drawing app, try looking at your toy and drawing what you see.  Look at the lines, shapes, and colors used in your toy.  

Lesson 4:  Superhero Self

Ok, superhero friends.  It’s time to use that amazing imagination you have!  Today your challenge is to draw yourself as a superhero.  Think about the following details:  

1. What is your superpower?
2. What does your superhero costume look like?
3. Where do you, superhero, live?  What will your background look like?
4. Do you have a special superhero vehicle?  
5. Do you have a sidekick?  If so, what do they look like?

When you’ve thought through your details, it’s TIME TO DRAW!  Have fun, my amazingly SUPER art students!

Alternative Art Plans 3rd-5th Grades

Week 3 (March 30-April 3):

Lesson 1: Indianapolis Museum of Art​- Mini Golf Sculptures

Watch this video about interactive sculptures!  When you’re done, do some design work to create your own mini golf sculptures.  How many Mini-Golf holes can YOU design? Will you golf course have a theme? You could create this course on paper, with LEGOS, build it with found objects at home or from the recycle bin or draw it digitally!

Mini Golf Meets Interactive Sculpture

Lesson 2: Imaginative Drawings and Details

Lesson 3: Meet the Artist:  Sean Kenny

Have you ever looked at a bin of LEGOs and felt the Master Builder in you start to get excited?  Check out the artwork of sculptor, Sean Kenny. He creates with, you guessed it, LEGOS! Today you may just enjoy learning about a new artist, but if you’re feeling inspired, take the challenge to go to your LEGOs and create something new!  Maybe you could even contact a friend and have an online building challenge and share your work!! Good Luck, Master Builders!

Lego Art with Sean Kenny

Life-Size LEGO Animals

Lesson 4: Creating with Technology: Digital Art

Today is a day to let your imagination run wild!  Can you use technology to create a work of art?  

Here are some ideas for you to try, or use an app you already have:

Google Canvas

Quick Draw (on SJPS symbaloo page)

Purple Mash (on SJPS symbaloo)

Take a photo and edit it to make it your own design

My Amazing Art Students, I MISS YOU!

Thank you for sending me pictures of the artwork you've been creating at home this week!  I'm so proud of the way you continue to create masterpieces.  Your photos are filling my heart with so much happiness!  I love seeing the color and creativity you're putting on paper. Keep those images coming! 

Because we're still staying home, I have a second set of art challenges for you.  Remember, it's fun to create together!  Get your whole family involved if you can.  My son, Ashton, and I have been drawing together following Art Hub for Kids drawing directions.  Ethan and I have been working on 1 point perspective drawing.  Creating art together is a great way to connect and relax.

Here are Week 2 Challenges for you.  You should also get a copy from your classroom teacher.  Have fun, creating, my artists.  Remember, you are LOVED! 

Young 5s- 2nd Grade Week 2:  March 23-27

Lesson 1: Observation Challenge

Artists have a talent to notice and observe beauty in the world around them.  Today, your art challenge is to look at the world with your Artist's eyes. You can answer the following questions in your head, write them down, or draw pictures of what you see.

• Look at the sky at three different times of the day today.  What do you see in the sky? What colors do you see? How did the sky change when you looked at it?
• If you are able to go outside today, look around you and try to find all the different shades of green.  What other colors do you see? If you can’t go outside today, how many different colors can you find inside? 

Lesson 2:  Silly Drawings and Details

• Draw a llama surfing.
• Draw a fish swimming in something other than water.
• Combine two animals to create a new one.
• Draw a shark eating a cupcake.

Lesson 3:  Learn about an Artist

Kindergarten and Second graders, you have already studied Vincent VanGogh’s artwork.  Today, all of our artists can watch this video to learn more about Vincent VanGogh. As you watch this video, try to pick out your favorite work of art.  If you’re up for the challenge, try drawing YOUR version of a Vincent VanGogh work of art!

Art With Mati & Dada - Van Gogh

Lesson 4:  Creating with Cartooning

Artists, for today’s challenge, try drawing in a cartooning style.  We’ve used Art for Kids Hub before. Below is the link to their YouTube Channel.  Today, have fun choosing something that you’d enjoy drawing! There are several characters from your favorite books, TV shows, movies and games that you can learn to draw.  You may simply watch and learn, or draw along. If you’re really feeling like a challenge, try designing your own cartoon today! Have fun, artists!

Art for Kids Hub

3rd- 5th Grade  Week 2 (March 23-27):

Lesson 1:  Finding Art at a Festival

• The cherry blossoms are blooming in Washington D.C. soon! They even have a Cherry Blossom Festival. It is a beautiful site to see! Watch the clip below to take a virtual tour.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eh16fdLiLQ

• When you are finished watching the virtual tour, get a piece of paper. Any size will do! If you have crayons, colored pencils, markers, or paints, you could add some color at the end. Watch the Art Hub drawing video below, and make some beautiful cherry blossoms. Next time you are outside, notice the flowers that are coming out of the ground in Michigan!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJknEdwBQFo&t=1s

Lesson 2: Imaginative Drawings and Details

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• Get a piece of paper and draw one or ALL of the “watchamadrawit” prompts. Challenge yourself and add backgrounds, details, an even thought or talking clouds with the characters. Which one do you like best? Why? What happened right before the picture took place? What do you predict will happen later?

Lesson 3: Meet the Artist- Sandra Silberzwieg

• Have you heard of the artist, Sandra Silberzwieg? She is a Canadian Contemporary Abstract artist that I think you are going to love! Our friend, Cassie Stephens is going to teach us about this artist and how to draw artwork similar to Sandra Silberzwieg. You can watch the video and just learn from her, or you can grab a large piece of paper and draw along. You DO NOT need to have the same materials that she has. Be your creative self and make it the way that feels best to you. Be ready to pause the video along the way. Enjoy!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_ZP7Z2UH6M

Lesson 4:  Creating with Pointillism

• Have you ever heard of Pointillism? It is a style where small dots are used to compose an entire composition! Let’s learn a little more about it at this website. Don’t forget to take the ten question quiz at the end!
• https://www.ducksters.com/history/art/pointillism.php
• You can learn more about George Seurat and his pointillism below!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDW4wSTm-V4&t=2s

Collaborative Painting created by 1st Graders at Brown Elementary

Hello, my amazing art students.

Artists, I'm missing you.  Tons.  The painting above is what my heart is feeling for you; all sorts of love and happy thoughts and excitement to be together again, creating!  In the meantime, while you're home being safe, Mrs. Huber and I have created some art challenges for you so you can keep practicing your amazing art skills.  I'll be creating along with you over our time away.  

I'm attaching your art challenges for Week One of school closure.  You should also get these from your classroom teachers.  We've included 4 days of challenges for you each week.  If you have older or younger siblings, you could help them with their challenges too.  We know how much fun it is to create together, so if you're like me, and you have a lot of your family home with you right now, use these challenges as a way to create together.  Feel free to take pictures of what you've created and email them to me.  I would love to see your artwork!

Stay safe, artists.  You are loved.  I'll see you soon!

Love,

Mrs. Warsow

Art Lessons Grades K-2

Week 1 (March 16-March 20)

Lesson 1: Art Museum Introduction

• Have you ever been to an Art Museum? We have our very own Krasl Art Center right here in town! Maybe you can visit this summer. Please watch the video below to learn what we do when we go to an Art Museum. The children we will watch are visiting the Boca Raton Art Museum. At the end, you could draw a picture of your favorite thing you saw!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQMlZHpo6w0

Lesson 2: Silly Drawings and Details

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• Sometimes we like to draw silly things! Please get a piece of paper and some drawing supplies. You can draw one of them or all of them. Give them as many details as you can!

Lesson 3:  Study the work of a new artist.

This artwork is by a contemporary artist  (that means she is alive and making art right now) Kelly Knaga.  Kelly lives near us, in Chicago and Northwest Indiana. What do you SEE in this work of art?

What do you THINK about this artwork?  What do you WONDER about this art? If you’re up for the challenge, could you find things around your house to use to create a work of art inspired by Kelly Knaga’s artwork?  You could use paint, markers, crayons, colored pencils, buttons, stickers, your fingerprints, or cut shapes from old catalogs or magazines. Have fun creating!

Lesson 4:  Using FORM to create 3D Houses in a Colorful Village

Check out this lesson from art teacher, Cassie Stephens!  You’ll all remember drawing 3D houses when you created your Starry Night artwork in Kindergarten.  This lesson will challenge you to use your imagination to create lots of different 3D houses.  Mrs. Stephens uses oil pastels and paint in her lesson, but you may use ANYTHING to add color! Have fun creating!!!!

A Colorful Village!

Art Lessons Grades 3-5

Week 1 (March 16-March 20)

Lesson 1: Art Museum Etiquette

• Have you ever been to an art museum? Do you know there is a certain etiquette, or way you’re supposed to act, when you go to a museum? The Krasl Art Center is downtown St. Joseph. The Box Factory also has amazing artwork displayed at their gallery.  You should take a visit through them this summer! Don’t forget these rules when you do!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AozRXE2ssyM

Lesson 2: Imaginative Drawings and Details

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• Get a piece of paper and draw one or ALL of the “watchamadrawit” prompts. Challenge yourself and add backgrounds, details, an even thought or talking clouds with the characters. Which one do you like best? Why? What happened right before the picture took place? What do you predict will happen later?

Lesson 3: Meet the Artist- Romero Britto

Today you’ll learn about Brazillian artist, Romero Britto.  Nashville-based art teacher, Cassie Stephens is going to teach us about this artist and how to draw a self portrait in the style of Britto. You can watch the video and just learn from her, or you can grab a piece of paper and draw along. You DO NOT need to have the same materials that she has. Enjoy drawing yourself in a new style with LOTS of color and pattern!!!  If you really enjoy this style, you could keep creating and draw portraits of your friends, family, or even your pets!  

Romero Britto Inspired Self Portrait Lesson

Lesson 4:  Creating with Cartooning

Artists, for today’s challenge, try drawing in a cartooning style.  We’ve used Art for Kids Hub before. Below is the link to their YouTube Channel.  Today, have fun choosing something that you’d enjoy drawing! There are several characters from your favorite books, TV shows, movies and games that you can learn to draw.  You may simply watch and learn, or draw along. If you’re really feeling like a challenge, try designing your own cartoon today! Have fun, artists!

Art for Kids Hub