Wayne Thiebaud Bulletin Board

This is officially the last board I needed to set up for the art show!

Time is running short and I'm starting to feel the crunch of getting the rest of the art matted, labeled, and hung on the walls. I hope the rest of you who host your art shows in March are doing well!

My first, second, and third graders all do a project inspired by Wayne Thiebaud. We discuss shapes vs. forms and how to create the illusion of form by adding light and dark to our object. On this board I only hung up the first grade ice cream cones and second grade cupcakes. Third graders had created popsicles, for your own reference. Enjoy!

The title.

At the top of this photo you'll notice a small blurb I wrote about Thiebaud as well as posted some of his artwork.

The whole board, this thing is massive!

Fall Bulletin Board: Pumpkins and Owls

Here are pictures of my completed fall themed bulletin board. It contains Owls from my first graders (idea borrowed from here) and Pumpkins from my second graders. The owls were created by using circle tracers, chalk pastels, white and black liquid tempera paint, sponges, and paint brushes! The pumpkins were created with chalk pastels.

I created this handout to guide my second graders after the demonstration. I'll scan in the sheet soon and add a downloadable version!

Here are some pictures of the finished bulletin board. I've received a lot of compliments so far :)

Kandinsky and Mondrian Bulletin Boards

My second graders' first project of the year was with the artist Wassily Kandinsky. They learned about his abstract compositions and the geometric and organic shapes he used in his compositions. They drew out their own Kandinsky inspired compositions using pencil, traced over their design with Sharpie and then used watercolors to fill in all the white spaces. Here are some pictures of the bulletin board I created to display these pieces:

My first graders' second project of the year was inspired by the artist Piet Mondrian. We talked about his use of vertical and horizontal lines that created squares and rectangles which he then colored with primary colors and black. We also talked about what abstract art is and how his paintings apply. My first graders practiced using rulers to draw their lines and then Sharpie'd over them. They used markers to color in the squares/rectangles. Here are some pictures of the bulletin board for this project: