Showing posts with label murals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label murals. Show all posts

Monday, January 27, 2014

The Underwater World: Grade 1- 3 (November 2013)





I work as a roaming Art Teacher for grades 1-3 in Ben Tzvi in Afula once a week.
I have 2 classes of each grade and 143 pupils all in all! And teach them ALL in 1 day!
It’s definitely quite a challenge, but ever so rewarding!!And I love it!!!!

I wanted to do a project with all 3 of my grades .Something that we could collaborate to make something special! To show them that each on his own is special & beautiful but together we are amazing!
I thought underwater would be something bright & colourful!
I must say I was a bit apprehensive but it was a very successful, though hard working project!
The grade 3’s started with the background, I took them out of the classroom and I must say it was a bit wild!but they had fun & made beautiful backgrounds! I decided not to take the others out as 45 mins just isn’t enough!
The grade 2’s & 1’s were instructed to draw fish and seaweed (I prepared some worksheets with ideas which I handed out for those that wanted inspiration) I reminded the kids that if we copy something we must always change some details to make it our own!
I then took home all the paintings of fish and that’s when the hard work started I cut out all the fish & stuck them on the backgrounds (a surprisingly long process! Really it took me over 3 hours!)
Just look at the wonderful results!!!We are all very proud!
And the schools walls are brightened up!
Grade 3's working together

Great textures happening

Working together

Different shades of blue
Paints, pastels, markers, pencils and happily painting children

Cutting out the fish

One board done!

And another

Loving those colours!

Each fish has its place under the sea!

Even mermaids & castles!


Three boards connected and up on the wall!

Two boards connected & up on our walls!

Art with a splash of English-28/10/13-4/11/13 (Tal Menashe)




A group project once again, this time with the “littlies”. grade1-3's

After reading the great book “The glass bottom boat” by Peter Harris

We spent the first lesson painting the background with different shades of blue & green on great big sheets of paper. The following week we drew fish with black pastels and painted the watercolors. The results were spectacular.

I then cut out the fish and stuck them on our beautiful sea background. Just look at the beautiful aquarium we now have in our studio. A wonderful way to “jell” a class and have fun doing it and a great way to decorate our white walls in our new studio in Tal Menashe.

After drawing the outlines with an oil pastel they start filling in the colour

Three shades of blue

Look at how they are all working together so nicely

Adding some more details with oil pastels


 
Beautiful drawings with black pastel & watercolors


I just love this fish!

Beautiful shapes, pattern & colour!

After carefully cutting out all the fish I glued them onto the beautifully prepared background...spectacular!!!


Friday, November 08, 2013

Flower Mural


As a project to get to know my new group of girls from grade 5 & 6 I decided it would be fun and great team building to do a mural together. Thanks to my wonderful father-in-law I have access to great big pieces of paper!

We looked at both photos and pictures of flowers .I told them we would paint a field together! The idea was to fill the entire paper. They drew the outlines, some preferred to start painting without pencil.

Each girl found a space and got started .It took longer for some to feel confident and comfortable but at the end of the class they were all into it! We used a mix of tempera and gouache paints.

For the first lesson we painted the flowers, leaves, butterflies and even some ants & then the following week we painted the background. The background really brought the girls together as a group because they were all doing the same thing and they were feeling more confident.

I suggested they outline everything in black but the girls decided as a group against it.

Looking at the photos I think they made a great choice! It is delicate and beautiful just like my group of girls!

It now adorns the wall in our studio and everybody admires it!! I am so proud of my girls!!
It was a great way to start the year !!!
Starting to take shape

Each girl finding her space
Working together with lovely ideas and beautiful colours!
Adding some grass

Connecting the flowers with stalks

Working so nicely together

Background almost finished 

Wow!


Simply magnificent !!!Well done girls!!!