Who doesn’t love patterns? Two things that my students are great at are Painting and Patterns! In class we discuss what is a symbol versus a pattern? What is a complex pattern? What is a mot…

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Westgarth P.S Art on Instagram: "Grade 1 process snippets for their Anna Blatman inspired landscape paintings. Lots of mess 🤪 I broke the steps down real slow, I’m so impressed with their patience and pride they take in their work. 👏🏼 Look out for these in this year’s Art Show. Thanks to @tallshortartists for the inspo with this project 🥰"

2nd graders looked at the way artists use foreground, middle ground, and background to create depth in their work. We used these new skills to create landscapes of our own! Learning Goals: I can describe what a landscape is I can point out foreground, middle ground, and background in a landscape. I can create a landscape.

When I found out my 2nd graders were studying landforms in their Social Studies unit, I knew I had to try these Ted Harrison landscapes again. We went about the project in a pretty similar fashion …

My second graders recently learned about simple ways to show depth in an artwork. I gave a demonstration on my new document camera and showed them how rivers and roads that go back in space would be wider in the front and narrower in the back. I demonstrated how things that were far in the distance would be smaller than things in the front. The use of overlap is also a way to show depth. I showed the students this … Read more... →

Ted Harrison was an English-Canadian artist known for his work in landscape, colour and shape. This bright project is a celebration of his work. We do this project at the end of our Canada unit and after having spent some time diving deeper into our own province of British Columbia.

Vincent Van Gogh is alwais intriguing for students, because of his fame, his unfortunate life and his revolution in painting. With students of 8th grade we studied the Van Gogh’s life and art…

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Looking for art lesson ideas about seasons and weather? Explore concepts of Earth Science through paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and learn about the Elements of art – color and space. Students will practice drawing landscapes and complete a watercolor landscape art project. This Seasons in Art unit offers a perfect blend of Science and Art for first and second grade artists!