Last week was a catch up day for us. I have been displaying the first graders beautiful Georgia O'Keefe flowers and poems at school and some students still needed to finish their good copy of their poem. While some students worked on this, others completed their Keith Haring cartoon from the week before, and they have really perfected the art of drawing like Haring. If students were done both of these projects, they were allowed to use white pastels on black paper to do a cartoon of something imaginary or inspiring, just like the subway drawings Keith Haring made with chalk. I showed students a short CBS Sunday Morning Story about how Haring made art visible and available to people on the streets. Sometimes he even got arrested for this, but just for a day or so. My students thought that he should not draw on property with out permission, but they loved that he was able to make art for the people and were shocked at how much his work sold for in the galleries!
This most recent class they took the Keith Haring theme one step further and used clay to make Keith Haring inspired sculptures. They did an amazing job with these too and had a noticeably fun time trying their own techniques and making their ideas come to life!
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Last class,I we jumped a few decades to move from Georgia O'Keefe to the 1980's when street artist Keith Haring's art became popular. We studied Haring's work and watched a short video about him. I asked students to find ways that his art is different than other artists we've studied. I showed them some tricks on how to draw in his style, and the artists set out to draw their own cartoon in Keith Haring's style. The only requirements were that their drawing had to show a character in motion. students had their classmates strike a pose and model fun action positions.
Last week, the first graders began this finishing touches on their beautiful Georgia O'Keefe paintings. I gave them some sentence starters to get their words flowing. Students began their poems by filling in the blank and copied and attached their final poem to their flower.
Here are a few examples of their creative words! "My flower reminds me of love My flower is pink like a pig My flower is blue like the sea My flower is soft like silk My flower is happy like ME!!!" "My flower reminds me of Paris My flower is purple like a grape My flower is green like a lime My flower is round like a ball My flower is exciting like a rose" "My flower reminds me of planets My flower is gold like the sun My flower is green like grass My flower is pink like dawn My flower is smooth like skin My flower is mad like a dinosaur" |
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