Cecropia Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 I'm looking for art project ideas/art techniques that are simple enough for upper elementary/middle school students, yet have a real "wow, a child made that?" quality when finished. What have you tried that really impressed you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Whichever one produces the littlest mess is always what amazes me. I haven't met my Da Vinci yet though ;) More seriously, watercolor is a favorite in terms of pretty outcomes, especially abstracts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nannyaunt Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 I don't know if this is what you're looking for but I saw this in a Rod and Staff art pad. Use a crayon to trace very darkly around the outlines and then use an eraser to drag the color inside. Very easy and looks very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 My kids have done some wonderful work from Angela Anderson's YouTube channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 (edited) These are all from the Art Projects for Kids website, by art teacher Kathy Barbro: Leaf Pattern Art Line Art Leaf Full Moon Trees Scratch Art Film and Sun Prints Positive and Negative Circles Contour Line Drawing Circle Grid Tree Color Stick Landscape Fossil Art Trading Cards Dissected Flower Drawing Op Art Swirl Modigliani Self Portraits Paint Like Miro with Tissue Paper Van Gogh Wheatfield Bernard Hoyes-Inspired Dancing Lady Aboriginal Snake Drawing The takepart website has this article that looks pretty neat: 10 Crazy-Cool Classroom Art Projects for Kids. Edited September 10, 2016 by Lori D. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennay Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 This one: http://harmonyfinearts.org/2010/07/watercolor-painting-collage/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tammyw Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Would love some great art ideas also!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domestic_engineer Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Watercolor pencils and rubber cement are cheap ways to kick your watercolors up a notch. rubber cement?! oooh, please do enlighten this non-artsy mama. how does this go with watercolors? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vida Winter Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Watercolor-salt winter birch trees - here is a link on youtube. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Anamorphic drawings are a favourite around here at the moment. They are the cool 3D-looking drawings. My 10yr old follows youtube tutorials like this: Definite wow factor. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeschoolingHearts&Minds Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 So, for example, if you wanted to do a cottage in front of a mountain range, you'd pencil in the cottage and very carefully cover it in rubber cement. When it's dry it waterproofs that part of the paper and you can paint the mountains in nice smooth washes of color. When you're done just rub the rubber cement off and paint the cottage. It prevents that "outline" look you get around objects in watercolors sometimes. You can also use the blue painter's tape to block out an area, or to make a straight line (say for a horizon). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecropia Posted September 25, 2016 Author Share Posted September 25, 2016 We are working on one-point perspective this week, and this project looks really cool (and fairly easy). http://www.refrigeratorgood.com/2013/04/1-pt-perspective-mixed-media-collage.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanetC Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 These are all from the Art Projects for Kids website, by art teacher Kathy Barbro: I LOVE Art Proejcts for Kids. There are tons of great projects there, and most of them are simple enough to do in one or two school art periods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue daisy Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 We are working on one-point perspective this week, and this project looks really cool (and fairly easy). http://www.refrigeratorgood.com/2013/04/1-pt-perspective-mixed-media-collage.html This is a really cool project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue daisy Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Thank you for sharing this site! We haven't really done art yet. This gives me some ideas to get started. These are all from the Art Projects for Kids website, by art teacher Kathy Barbro: Leaf Pattern Art Line Art Leaf Full Moon Trees Scratch Art Film and Sun Prints Positive and Negative Circles Contour Line Drawing Circle Grid Tree Color Stick Landscape Fossil Art Trading Cards Dissected Flower Drawing Op Art Swirl Modigliani Self Portraits Paint Like Miro with Tissue Paper Van Gogh Wheatfield Bernard Hoyes-Inspired Dancing Lady Aboriginal Snake Drawing The takepart website has this article that looks pretty neat: 10 Crazy-Cool Classroom Art Projects for Kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plink Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Needle felting Fused glass (requires access to a kiln, many paint-your-own-pottery studios will rent theirs) Block printing Embossed metal Shrink film "glass" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdventuresinHomeschooling Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 First, I do think it's important for kids to learn the process of art and explore different mediums without hovering adults worrying about the results too much. While I believe good art can be imitated in structure and form, and those things can and should be taught, they should also have free expression time. That said, I think the best results of things I'd want to really show off and hang on my wall are often in chalk pastels. Www.hodgepodge.me has some awesome, free lessons of chalk pastel drawings. We have done some, and we get some really beautiful, and still individual, results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Iris folding... little mess, simple supplies. just follow the patterns, flip the paper over and WOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimm Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Get some oil pastels and watercolor. Draw the outlines of something, buildings, bugs, trees, flowers, people, monsters, hot air balloons, whatever. Then paint with the watercolors. The oil pastels resist the water and stay in place. It looks amazing, even when pretty young children do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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