Mrs.Williams Art Room

As promised, I have included a video tutorial of my art projects. This project is inspired by James Rizzi's Birds. My fifth grade students have been begging to do more clay and so here's there first clay project of the year. Stay tuned for student art work. My    u J ames Rizzi was born in 1950 in Brooklyn. He studied art in Florida (Gainesville), where he started experimenting with printing, painting and sculpting. Rizzi’s work often shows his birthplace New York. His paintings look sometimes childishly native, with many the bright colors.  Students at work Love how this one is turning out! Can't wait to see more! Supplies needed: Clay Rolling Pin or something to make clay flat 4.5 x 4.5 inch template square toothpicks Water dish Clay or non-clay tools                                               ...

I love Zentangles! While on break I tried a cool leaf design using Zentangle designs inside the leaf pattern. I traced about 7-9 leaf stencils and used a few Zentangle designs in the center of each one. I used a sharpie marker for the outline. Later, I used watercolor for the background and focused on cool colors. I would like to try this lesson out in the future. I can see fourth grade on up doing something like this.

  Each year I give fifth grade a review lesson on elements of art.  Students use shapes, texture and color in this lesson.   Students learn to overlap shapes by erasing lines that are within a shape. They may use all organic shapes or mix them with geometric shapes.  Later, we color the entire paper with marker and finally add texture by adding glue and then sprinkle glitter over the paper. Every things better with glitter! Lastly, we mount our designs on to construction paper.              Brighter colors really make the artwork stand out the best.