4th Grade Fall Owls

So, I'm addicted to Pinterest. I have been sooo inspired by Pinterest, and the many art/art teachers pinning. I found this Owl on Pinterest. I didn't link back to see where it came from when we did this project. However, posting it here, I felt it necessary. WOW!!! I wish I checked this out earlier. The site is called easely amused. It advertises painting lessons. I soooo want to go paint here, it would be too far to drive though, states away. I wish we had a place here like this. You pick a class/night, and you pay someone to lead you through painting your masterpiece. And how beautiful the paintings are!!!! And reasonable, I would think the canvas would cost this much, let alone paint, and instruction on how to paint. Wow!!! Very cool! Check it out.
So, for our owls, the students used orange construction paper to construct their birds. Next they used oil pastels to color/fill in their owls. I think they turned out great.

4th Grade Portraits

Like I said, I assigned every class in the elementary a self-portrait for their first assignment. The 4th grade drew their portraits, traced them with Sharpie markers, then watercolor painted them.

 

Animal Eyes

I found this art project on the internet. Now, I can't remember where I found it. I used it with my high school class, and my fourth grade class. The fourth graders loved that the high school students were doing the same project as they were doing. The students folded their paper into quadrants. They were all given a close up color print out of an animal eye. They were to fold their copy of the eye and transfer what they saw on their paper with pencil. They had to work quadrant by quadrant. Here are some of the high school pieces.

Here are some of the fourth grade pieces.