Paintings were then left to dry until the next week. Students then used the side of a piece of corrugated cardboard dipped into a little bit of black liquid tempera paint, to create the black lines within their birch trees. Some trees in the foreground, a few in the middle ground and some in the background. On the first day of the lesson, students drew hills and trees on paper. Objects in the background are smaller and higher on the page. Objects in the foreground appear to be larger and lower on the page. Students applied their previous knowledge with creating perspective and space in their artwork from the “Monet inspired Bridge” lesson for this birch tree landscape lesson. Second graders looked at the artwork of Bev Doolittle for inspiration. The objective of this lesson was to create a landscape painting, while students are introduced to, and gain an understanding of, foreground, middle ground, and background within artwork. ![]() This lesson is another one of my favorites for 2nd grade! Review and can identify primary, secondary and warm and cool colors Learn about abstract artists and their artwork (Paul Klee, Kandinsky, William de Kooning, Jackson Pollock) – Learn what abstract art is and can identify abstract art Thank you Bridgette from for the idea! (I found via Pinterest) I hope you enjoy these awesome abstract self-portraits as much as I do!! Kids really enjoyed the abstract component and of course loved getting their photos taken as well! I know this lesson includes quite a bit of additional prep from me for all their photos and text, but I couldn’t resist doing it! The watercolors really pop against the black and white photo- as well as the strips of text! Plus, I just love this take on a self-portrait project. (I typed out their answers and cut each question/answer into strips with a paper cutter). In the following art class, students glued their black and white self-portrait onto their painting as well as their printed sentences that were cut into strips. ![]() While students worked, I took each students photo (which I later printed as a high-contrast black & white photo on printer paper). I gave students just red, blue and yellow paint, which allowed a review on primary colors! We also reviewed secondary colors and warm and cool colors as I demonstrated mixing colors, which was a great reminder on color theory!! In the next class, they painted their drawings using liquid watercolors creating a crayon wax-resist. If they didn’t answer them all, that was okay- I suggested to answer their favorites first, then at least answer 6. They then filled out a short questionaire with 10 or so questions asking about their favorite things and things about themselves. They started in pencil on 12×18″ tagboard and then went over all the lines with crayons being sure to press super hard as they traced over their lines (later on we would do a crayon wax-resist). Then I demonstrated on how they could draw an abstract drawing using different lines and shapes using rulers, various circle tracers as well as by hand. ![]() They noticed that the drawings were basically lines and shapes! We discussed how abstract art focuses mainly on lines, shapes, and colors and didn’t show a “picture” of anything (a person, a dog, a tree etc.) I then showed them a slideshow of artwork by various abstract painters (Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock and William de Cooning) and talked a little bit about their background. ![]() I asked students what they thought abstract artwork might be while looking at my examples. On the first day of the lesson, I showed students my example paintings as well as just the abstract drawings before the paint was applied. It is DEFINITELY one of my favorite lessons for 2nd grade!! This fun self-portrait lesson combines art exploration in abstract art and color theory. These photos/lessons are not posted in any particular order regarding the flow of my curriculum. Please Note: All images seen below are of my students artwork only.
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