Pastel Folk Art
This was a project brought on by a recent artist in residency helping the school with a fundraiser - Martinis and Masterpieces - and art auction organized by the school.
During the residency, the grade 3/4 class collaborated to create this piece of art for the auction:
In the classroom, students made curricular connections to the grade 4 Social Studies: Regions of Alberta. Their personal art was meant to reflect a particular part of our beautiful province, while echoing the style of art from the large fundraiser piece.
This was an example I looked at heavily with the students to see work from their age level:
The process included research, sketching, playing with materials such as pastel and pencil crayon, brainstorming appropriate patterns and engaging in a final composition. From an art perspective, students are learning about contour, pattern as well as foreground, middle ground and background.
The pattern effect is created by using a lighter color as a bottom layer, and heavy oil pastel as a top layer. The pattern is then "scratched" into the pastel. We used bamboo skewers for scratching. Other samples of this kind of work use oil pastel as both the bottom and top layer. The thick black outline is achieved simply with sharpie. Next time I would do pastel on pastel instead of pencil crayon.
Completed pieces!
Please email me if you would like more details on this project!
During the residency, the grade 3/4 class collaborated to create this piece of art for the auction:
In the classroom, students made curricular connections to the grade 4 Social Studies: Regions of Alberta. Their personal art was meant to reflect a particular part of our beautiful province, while echoing the style of art from the large fundraiser piece.
This was an example I looked at heavily with the students to see work from their age level:
The process included research, sketching, playing with materials such as pastel and pencil crayon, brainstorming appropriate patterns and engaging in a final composition. From an art perspective, students are learning about contour, pattern as well as foreground, middle ground and background.
The pattern effect is created by using a lighter color as a bottom layer, and heavy oil pastel as a top layer. The pattern is then "scratched" into the pastel. We used bamboo skewers for scratching. Other samples of this kind of work use oil pastel as both the bottom and top layer. The thick black outline is achieved simply with sharpie. Next time I would do pastel on pastel instead of pencil crayon.
Completed pieces!
Please email me if you would like more details on this project!
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