1st grade Henri Matisse watercolor collage

1st grade Henri Matisse Watercolor Collages 

This lesson took three, fifty minute class periods. On the first day students folded a piece of 12" x 18" multi media paper into eight sections. On each box students used various watercolor methods to create textures. Salt, plastic wrap, vegetable oil resist, oil pastel resist, dry brush, wet on wet were just a few of the methods used. They had to rush to get this part finished. See my demonstration videos below. 

For the next two classes, students learned all about organic and geometric shapes and then created their  collages. See the video below for part two of the lesson. 

Students loved learning how to make spirals and being free to cut organic shapes to make a pleasing collage. 

All for Art Fundraiser

All For Art Fundraiser 2019

I completely forgot to write about our "All for Art" fundraiser last year. Forgive me!

I started this around five years ago and the kids love it!

We have a contest to see what class brings in the most money to buy a new painting for our art gallery. The winning class gets to paint or slime the gym teacher. He is such a good sport. 

Here is a picture of what we raised this year

This year we had enough money to buy two pieces of art! 

 Thomas Rush and Carol MacConnell https://www.carolmacconnell.com/pages/about. You can clink on their links to see more of their work. 

These are the paintings the kids voted on to add to our gallery. 

We all assembled in the gym and had a big unveiling!

Thanks to Mr. Waits for being such a good sport and allowing the winning class to paint him!

Click here if you want to see what we have bought in the past https://mrsharrisart.blogspot.com/2018/09/all-for-art-fundraiser.html