Grade 1/2 Charcoal Landscapes

By Ella (Grade 2)

Lesson Materials (per student):

1 stick compressed charcoal

1 sheet A3 white art paper

1 sheet newspaper (to lay your paper on)

Landscape photos (showing landscapes with a large range of textures)

Lesson Steps:

1.  Look at the photo you have chosen.

2.  Carefully draw the outline of all the large shapes and horizon line.

3.  Look at where the shadows are in the image and use colouring and smudging to recreate these shadows in your drawing.

4.  Add in fine details such as leaves and grasses, using a range of different mark-making techniques (thin lines, thick lines, flicks, arcs, etc)

Student Artworks:

By Austin (Grade 2)

By Jeff (Grade 2)

By Eve (Grade 2)

Grade 1/2 Charcoal Flowers

By Xander (Grade 2)

Lesson Background:
As a part of our charcoal drawing unit, the children drew these still-life pictures, looking very closely at the textures, shapes, lines and shadows in the real life display I set up. 

1/2B studying and drawing the still life display

The vases I set up, trying to have a mixture of plants
with different textures for the children to draw

Lesson Materials (per student):
1 piece of white A3 art paper
1 stick of  compressed charcoal
1 piece of  newspaper

vase/s of highly textured different flowers (for the class to share)

Lesson Steps: (written by 1/2B class members as a joint construction)

1. Turn your paper into portrait position.
2.  Draw a line to show where the table is (about 1/3 of the page from the bottom).
3.  Draw an outline of the vase.
4. Start drawing the outline of the flowers and stems.
5. Add some shading and details to the flowers, stems and vase.  Make sure you use a range of white, light grey, dark grey and black shades.  Try to use different types of marks to show texture (thick/thin lines, arches, flicks, etc.)

Student Artworks:

By Angela (Grade 1)

By Jeff (Grade 2)

By Kayla (Grade 2)

By Millie (Grade 2)

By Nive (Grade 2)

By Paige (Grade 2)

By Eve (Grade 2)

By Ella (Grade 2)

Grade 1/2 Charcoal Toy Drawings

By Angela X (Grade 1)

Lesson Background:

We are doing an art unit focusing on charcoal drawing techniques at the moment.  We are encouraging the children to show light and shade, and use many different types of lines and markings to show texture.  For this lesson, the children had to show these skills by drawing a toy they had brought in from home, or found in the classroom.  I was really impressed with their efforts!

Lesson Materials (per student):

1 piece of white A3 art paper
1 piece of newspaper to keep your table clean
1 piece of compressed charcoal
a toy to draw


Lesson steps: (Written by Angie and Millie, Grade 2)


1.  Get your toy and place it on your desk in front of you.
2.  Start by drawing a simple outline with your charcoal.
4.  Add the finer details.
5.  Include light and shadow by smudging or pressing more firmly or softly with the charcoal.
6.  Add texture by using different types of lines: thin, thick, straight, curved, flicked, etc.
 
Student Art Works :

By Austin (Grade 2)

By Agnes (Grade 2)

By Millie (Grade 2)

By Nive (Grade 2)

By Xander (Grade 2)

My sample drawing to demonstrate ways of showing texture

Picasso Spring Flower Paintings

 

By Agnes (Grade 2)

Lesson Background:
Spring time here in Canberra is gorgeous.  We have a beautiful flower festival called Floriade which many of our class members visited in our recent school holidays.  To celebrate this beautiful time of year, our class made these flower artworks based on the famous artwork by Picasso, "The Flowers of Peace" (shown below).

Lesson Materials (per student):
Written by Amelia (Grade 1) and Ella (Grade 1)

• acrylic paint
• 1 black permanent marker
• 1 lead pencil
• 1 water container
• 1 thin paint brush and 1 thick paint brush
• newspapers (to keep the tables tidy)
• 1 A4 piece of white art paper

Lesson Steps: 
Written by Jeff (Grade 2) and Tahir (Grade 1)

1. First,we pretended that we were holding flowers with our hand and then we laid   our hands down onto the paper in that position.
2. Next we got our partner to trace around our hand with a lead pencil.
3. Then we edited the shape of the hand, using our pencil to smooth bits that were a bit bumpy or wonky.
4. After that we drew in lines for the fingers and arches for the fingernails.
5. Next we drew in some extra details for the hand.
6. Then we outlined the hand with a black permanent marker.
7. After that we drew the stems of the flowers.  We imagined the stem going through our hand and then continuing out under our fingers.
8. Finally we painted the stems and flowers .

Student Artworks:

 

By Josh (Grade 1)

By Angie (Grade 2)

By Austin (Grade 2)

By Ella U (Grade 2)

By Angela (Grade 1)

By Eve (Grade 2)



By Xander (Grade 2)



By Paige (Grade 2)

By Serina (Grade 2)

By Kayla (Grade 2)

 

 

By Leo (Grade 1)





some of 1/2B's beautiful spring paintings





 

Watercolour Bridge Silhouettes

some of 1/2B's beautiful bridge silhouettes

Lesson Background:

My class have been engaged in a Technology unit for the past few weeks, exploring bridge building principles and the design, make and appraise process.  We have watched videos, looked at photos, had endless discussions and done many experiments to determine why bridges are built in different ways, how to make our own paper bridges strong and stable, and how bridge designs change depending on their purpose.  My class have spent the past week developing PowerPoint presentations about different bridge types and their purposes, so I thought it would be nice to create some artworks showing some of the different bridge types they have been researching.  I found this great lesson idea on the Art with Mr Hall blog- http://artwithmrhall.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/bridge-silhouettes.html, and have made just a few small changes to suit my Year 1/2 students and the resources we had available to us.

Materials (per student):
Written by Xander (Grade 2) and Angela (Grade 1)

·       1 A4 piece of white art paper
·       Pencil and a rubber
·       1 black permanent marker
·       Warm and cool watercolour paint
·       Water
·       A thin and thick paint brush
·       A 30cm ruler
·       Pictures of bridge silhouettes from Google Images

Lesson Steps:
Written by Kayla (Grade 2), Eve (Grade 2) and Agnes (Grade 2)

1.   Position your paper in landscape. 
2.   Grab your pencil and draw a straight line across the paper in the middle or slightly above or below the middle.  This will be your water line.
3.   Look at bridge silhouettes on the Internet  and choose a bridge shape you like.
4.   Carefully copy the bridge shape you like onto your paper using lead pencil.  Make sure you don’t just draw lines- draw rectangle shapes instead.
5.   Outline and colour your bridge with a black permanent marker.
6.   Choose a cool colour for your water background and paint it on.
7.  Choose a warm colour for your sky background and paint it on.
8.  When the water and sky are nearly dry, choose some warm colours then paint some flicks in the sky and choose some cool colours and paint some flicks in the water. 
9.  Go and put your pretty painting on the drying rack.
10.  When it is completely dry, go over your bridge with the black marker to make it stand out and cover any paint flicks that got on the bridge when you did your sky flicks.
11.  Glue the art work on to black backing paper.

Grade 1/2 Student Artworks:

By Angela (Grade 1)

By Annabel (Grade 1)



By Austin (Grade 2)

By Jeff (Grade 2)

By Rohan (Grade 2)

By Tahir (Grade 1)

More 1/2B bridges

By Anna (Grade 1)

By Ella (Grade 2)

By Kayla (Grade 2)

By Eve (Grade 2)

By Amelia (Grade 1)

 

By Callum (Grade 1)

By Nive (Grade 2)

Well done, 1/2B!  You have done a great job on these artworks.  I also want to congratulate Xander, Angela, Agnes, Kayla and Eve, who wrote the lesson materials and steps for this blog post.  I think you learned a lot about the importance of including detail in your procedures.  You have done a super job!  From Mrs Baker