"Grumpy Monkey" Portraits

I just love finding great books to teach with art lessons. And to top it off, this book is great when adding in emotions to artwork. When these are complete, they are absolutely hilarious and adorable. 

2nd Grade "Grumpy Monkey"

There are tons of "Read-A-Louds" on YouTube of this book. I of course always purchase the book and I read this aloud to my students. But have included a read-a-loud in my lesson. 

We discuss EMOTIONS and COLOR and how they can make a person feel when looking at art. I also like to introduce them to other works of art that portray emotions and we discuss them before starting this lesson. 

When designing art projects, I try to be creative with technique & medium. This one is fun because they CAN NOT use a paintbrush to paint with. The kids LOVE it!  

I love this little video of a student painting her artwork, lol:) 

Check out this lesson on my TPT shoppe:) "Art is My Jam"!

Grumpy Monkey Portraits TPT 

 

August 2020 "Back to School"  Newsletter!

I'm excited to share our next newsletter - August 2020 Newsletter, check it out! 

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  Check out my NEW
Interactive Google Slides! 

Perfect for learning about "The Elements of Art"! This one features the Element of Art - LINE and includes drag and drop options, etc... It's both informational and interactive for students. Perfect for those using Google Classroom. 

You can find them in my TPT Shoppe by clicking here:

Elements of Art - LINE for Virtual/Distance Learning

 

Welcome to the 2020/2021 School Year "Virtual Style"

Soon we begin the 2020/2021 School Year and it's definately going to be a unique situtation. This will be my first year not being face-to-face with my amazing art students. My heart is heavy as I LOVE seeing all my students each and every day. But, I will be teaching ART...just VIRTUALLY and I'll get to seem them through google meet once a week so that's a huge plus. I'm hoping this will be short lived and we can be back in the classroom together soon. So making the best of this, I've created a ton of interactive and virtual art lessons. As I get them all complete, I'll post them for all to see. 

Here's one of many....my DIGITAL/INTERACTIVE "Welcome Letter" for parents with all the different links and information to hopefully make things easier. 

Art is My Jam! Parent Sheet

Bitmoji Classroom Designs

"Virtual Classroom"

Working on creating my virtual classroom “Bitmoji Style”. So far I’ve created an Art Library, Calming Room, Art Gallery, Parent Sheet and my Art Classroom. Working on adding some other things like lesson links, etc... 2020/2021 School Year is kicking off soon and I’m hoping all my Amazing Artists will LOVE this. 

"Bitmoji Fever" Google Slides

I've been working hard on creating a faster digital workflow for students and myself. Check out my new cover and I'm adding lots of links to enhance their learning. Here's a preview and I'll have it "live" soon :)

Art is my Jam! Virtual Classroom 

 

Tim Burton inspired
"Self-Portraits"

Probably one of my all time favorite artists is Tim Burton. And I'm so excited to share this 5th grade lesson inspired by his art and movie "Frankenweenie". 

©Tim Burton movie "Fankenweenie"

The black and white characters make for some fun and interesting conversations and works of art. 

I have always wanted to use tinted paper but never really liked the look of the things that were drawn on it. But I have to say this worked out perfect for this lesson. And, if you knew some of these students...their pieces actually have characteristics like they are in real life, lol. And, not to mention the conversations they had while making them. 

I'll post and link this lesson with resources soon. I'm still fine tuning it. :) 

Mulga inspired "Parrots"

I did a lot of research and found a few new artists that I've been following and absolutely LOVE! Mulga is one of them because of the bright colors and fun paintings he creates with animals. He also has a book and this link will take you to the link to buy it. 

This lesson I created for my 3rd graders. It was a tough lesson because they had to do this following my videos on their own. They also got choices in what type of shoes their parrot is wearing, the sunglasses style and what he/she was eating. 

This lesson will be posted on my TPT Shoppe soon. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have in creating and implementing it.  

Jen Aranyi inspired...

Mason Jars and Mountainscapes! Remember the new art lessons I was working on? Here is one of them. Look at the amazing results from my 4th graders.

This lesson they totally completed on their own using the link provided. I was so proud of them and they absolutely loved being able to do this on their own. 

Below is the QR Code for the lesson from my previous post. You will need to have Google Slides to view and inside the slides are links to videos and handouts that will be helpful. 

Mason Jar Watercolors based of the artist Jen Aranyi

January 2020 Newslettter!

I'm excited to share our next newsletter - January Newsletter, check it out! 

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It'd love to be able to connect digitally around the world and share idea with you. I have some really exciting things coming and I post a lot more on my Instagram page. 

Happy New Year! 

What a great break it has been, I've been creating some NEW art lessons. Some I've created are originals and others with a little inspiration from some amazing art teachers out there. It's so great to be able to connect digitally around the world and share idea with one another. I hope my blog will inspire you as much as I get inspired creating it. ENJOY! 

Here's a sneak peek of a lesson that I'm very excitied about - Just scan the QR code and it'll take you to my lesson. You'll need Google Slides to view it. It'll also have links inside to videos, etc...

Mason Jar Watercolors based of the artist Jen Aranyi

I'm also attaching the PDF's I created to hep with creating the Mountains, Cabin, Tent, Trees, etc... I love that these will all be unique and slightly different.