5th Grade Picasso Portraits Finished

It is a real challenge this year to help my 4th and 5th grade students accomplish projects that require lots of studio time in half hour periods every 6 days. However, with a few "finish up days" where students are able to work on projects from past lessons, we have finally finished our Picasso Portraits (at least the majority of us)!

Several of you have been asking to see the final results, so here they are! Thank you for being so patient and fabulous job to all of my hard working 5th graders!

5th Grade Contour & Construction Line Shoe Watercolors

5th grade learned how construction lines help build a form. Construction lines are like beams that help support a building. The form we chose to draw was a shoe, straight off out feet! We turned our construction lines into contour lines. Contour lines are basically an outline of lines, shapes, and shadows in a form.

Fifth grade worked so intensely on their drawings that they ran out of time to complete their watercolors. However, the product they did achieve was fabulous!

Preppy & Kindergarten Chameleons

Our Pre-1 class and Kindergarten classes listened to the story, Chameleon's Colors by Chisato Tashiro. Chameleon was sick and tired of his colors and wanted to be just one color. The other animals in the jungle wished they could be a different color too.  Chameleon came up with this excellent idea to paint his friends in wild colors only to find out it wasn't the best thing to do!

Students drew their chameleons to camouflage themselves with a background, just like in the story!