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!

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