Students art work this 6 weeks.

All three of these pieces were done after studying PICASSO and his life and influences.

The first one is by a third grader and his piece is 18X24 inches and is from his interpretations of Picasso's blue period. The guitar from his knowledge of why Picasso painted the guitarist.

The second one is by a second grader and it is his way of studying abstractions. His is an abstracted Turkey Dinner. It is also 18X24 inches.

The third on is by a 5th grader and it is a study in Black and White, done after studying Guernica, and it is an Abstraction of an Apple. How would Picasso thought about an apple from the inside out. It is 18X48 inches. Done in tempera.

"6TH. GRADE PICASSO TOYS"

Here are three of my 6th graders "ABSTRACTED TOYS". These were done after studying Picasso's Abstractions.

All three of these are 14X36 inches in a vertical format.

All three are painted in Tempera and then the designs within the spaces are broken up with markers.

These are outstanding It was a four day project, with an open book study sheet to be turned in at the same time.

Magnificent job.

Congratulation People.

Other Oakdale students at the state fair

This is a kindergarten student. PLEASE notice the amount of detail all over this piece. expecting great things from this little girl.

This piece was a 9 drawing piece where each drawing , the same, was to be handled differently. Good job.

This was London's torn tissue collage. Great job for an 8 year old.

3 OF THE 11 MERIT AWARDS AT THE OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR.

The first piece if a stuffed paper sculpture by TANNER, Tanner was a 6th grader when he did this.

This piece is what we call a woven work by Haley W. Two different paintings are started and half way through they are cut apart and woven back together. One piece is turn upside down before putting them back together. One of the different subject matters will always appear dominate. that is the one painting we finish. Haley was in the 7th grade when she did this piece.

This piece is an enamel spray painting done by 3rd grader Mason G. The paper is sprayed randomly with the primary colors and then cut templates out of mat board are put down and sprayed with black and white to create the images.

THE SISTERS ARTIST

The  first is a watercolor of a white bass for the National state fish Jr. Fish stamp competition. done by 6 year old Audrey Darter. The construction of Styrofoam and plaster of Paris and metallic paints is done by 9 year old Ashlyn Darter. They are very nice artist.

"PUMPKINS ON THE VINE."

THIS IS THE WORK OF ONE OF MY 5TH GRADERS. EXCELLENT USE OF THE MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUE.

I DO THIS PARTICULAR ASSIGNMENT WITH ALL MY CLASSES, K-8, WITH A LITTLE TWIST ACCORDING TO THEIR BRAIN LEVEL AND THEIR MOTOR SKILLS.

WE DO THEM IN OCTOBER GETTING INTO THE FALL, HALLOWEEN AND THANKSGIVING SEASONS.

STUDENT WORK

The two family portraits are by Kindergartners. and the one of the space ship is by a 2nd. grader.

Please comment on the student work, They love it when I show them that someone has noticed their work.

6TH. GRADE PICASSO STYLE SELF PORTRAITS

These are three examples of the 6th. grade assignment to do your self portrait in PICASSO style.

5TH GRADE TREE STUDIES

These painting were the review painting done the first time the students came to art this year. They were given the choice to do something that showed all the things that they could remember from Kindergarten and incorporate those things into a Tree Painting. These were two that I thought did a good job of overlapping perspectives and color usage.

The students can see their work and the comments you make. Please do comment

Kindergarten and 3rd. grade artwork.

The first is the work of a third grade student. This is a watercolor and crayon resist painting of a fun event. Notice the perspective and overlap in the figures with crossed legs. Great little concept. The second piece is the work of a kindergarten student.  This is his first time to paint with me. Isn't the use of the watercolor across the top amazing. Beautiful.

IMPRESSIONISTIC IRIS

This was done by a former student. I just found it today in an old folio.

The student did this in the 8th grade she is in the 11th grade now.

It measures 18X24 inches and it was painted with Prang student grade watercolors using Q-Tips for brushes.

I hope you enjoy my Students works.

PROMISING PICASSO'S

This is two of my 6Th graders painting the class has been working on while we study the great painting "GUERNICA" by Picasso. We talked about abstraction and taking apart something and putting it back together a new way. At the beginning of the year we made pottery pots. For this painting they were to draw the parts or piece of clay that they used to construct one of their pots. looking at the pot from many angles they were to draw the pot as Picasso would. We then used black and white TEMPERA paint to create the many shades of gray to complete pieces like these. It was a fantastic project.

 

OAKDALE STUDENTS' PICASSO STUDIES AND TWO PRIVATE STUDENTS WORK.

This is one of the gallery walls in the art Dept. at Oakdale. We are studying PICASSO all year. this is abstraction. These are abstracted Pumpkins by 6th graders.
This is Haley with the fish painting she finished yesterday.

This is
Grant, Haley's little brother, with the fish painting he finished yesterday.

"LONDON'S FISH PAINTING"

This is London with the watercolor he painted with me this afternoon. It is a full sheet 22x30 inches.

London is 9 years old and in the third grade.

"LAWSON'S FLOWER PAINITNG"

This is Lawson. Lawson is one of my newest private students. Lawson is 6 years old and he has been taking privately for about 3 months.

"TWO CLASS PROJECTS BY MY OAKDALE STUDENTS'

This student was 11 when he did this piece. It is done in colored pencil and watercolor. 11X14
This piece is done in colored markers. she is 14. It is her name camouflaged with color and line. 18X24 inches

"PRIVATE STUDENT LONDON L. AND HIS ARTWORK".

This owl was done by LONDON L. London was 7 years old when he did this painting. It is in Acrylic on canvas board. This piece has been exhibited in three shows and won he has won at least two awards with it. I can't remember exactly which shows.





This is London with one of his pieces at a showing. This piece will be included in the Children Hospital collection in Oklahoma City.

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"ARTWORK BY 13 YEAR OLD 7TH GRADERS AT OAKDALE"

All these beautiful colors were created using only Prang watercolor, yellow, blue and red. Overlapping the colors with dots. The dots were applied using Q-tips. It is a time consuming projects but showing the students how color printing offset press work is done they get real anxious to see what they can produce. they really get into the different tints and tones created.






 Pen and Ink watercolor. Templates were used in the drawing.











































 It is 9 different 6 inch squares done with variation on a single subject, TULIP, done in Pastoils and mounted in on a larger square black piece of paper.

FIRST GRADE WORK FROM OAKDALE"

 

It is a crayon resist watercolor and it won an Award at the Edmond Fine arts show. The piece is of three apples, in crayon, showing overlap for atmosphericl perspective and with a background and foreground established horizon line. and with emphasis on details in the Middle ground. Yes the first graders do understand all this.

 In this crayon piece he is showing his favorites fruits. Emphasising by size his favorites. Working on Bigness, middle ness and littleness. Variation to enhance design and composition this way.

HALEY, GRANT AND ALLIE

This is Haley, Grant and Allie, Brother and sisters. Allie and grant are twins. In this picture they are 9 and 11. This is their interpretations of silhouette paintings that they did in a 1 1/2 hour art lesson with me. The drawing is done very quickly and the the entire paper is wet and the paints applied in a quick wash, the the black is painted on top of the backgrounds.

"WORKS OF THREE PRIVATE STUDENTS"

The first one is by Grayson, grayson did this one when he was 9 and it is one of 4 done in the design and color theory session. this is the LINE painting.
The second one is by Gabby and it is a watercolor and tempera mixed media painting of a Native American Fancy Dancer. Gabby is a Native American. She did this piece when she was 10.
The third piece if by London, London did this piece when he was 8 years old. It is a watercolor.

AWARD WINNING STUDENT WORKS

The first piece is a Blue Ribbon piece by a private student Ashlyn, she did this piece when she was 6 years old. It is a watercolor.

The second piece is a tempera piece by a private student, Haley, a scene from one of her vacation trips.

The third piece is a crayon resist piece with Tempera over wax crayon. This piece was done by Mason who was 7 when he did this as a class project.

Please comment on the student works they really like seeing the comments.

Mariamanda & Alli's art work

These are the works of two of my students, One is from Oakdale and the other is one of my private students.

The Black and white scratch board piece is by Mariamanda and was the best one from my class of 7Th en 8Th grade students last year. Mariamanda actually did two pieces while some of the rest of the class never finished the first one.

The 2Nd piece is by Alli and it is a mono print encaustic piece titled "PIZZA MAN" each color is applied to a different piece of paper with wax crayons and the heat transferred on top of each other on this finished piece of paper.

Children love comments about their work and most of them are linked to this blog somehow or the other.