So I just finished watching the film Gravity for the fourth time. I know some find it a snooze fest, others think its only good to watch it on a gigantic movie screen, but I am a space addict and its about as close as I'll ever get to actual space soooo.... Gravity has found a little spot in my heart next to Contact. Anyways all this space watching inspired me to post a few more of my students space themed artwork from about a month back.
I regards to what is currently going on in the art room; lots and lots of clay (which as soon as the Face Jugs are complete I'll post an update), paper weaving and portraits. All of which I'll be sure to share on here for my audience of one. *Waves at Emily*
Anyways on to some space art. First I have some chalk pastel solar systems by third grade. We talked about blending and such.
Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
The Gravity of Space and Art
My second graders made their own constellations. The first week we made a splatter painting that became a piece of the night sky. Then students connected the dots to find an image in the stars, just like the ancient greeks must have done long ago. Next they drew out the object they had found and the following week we water colored them.
Lastly my first graders got really creative using up all my scrap paper to make Scrap Aliens!
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Astronauts
Recently the science specials teacher at my school had StarLab set up and I will freely admit that I spent some quite time relaxing in there gazing at the fake night sky. This also meant it was a perfect time to create some space themed projects, not that I really need an excuse I love all things astronomy. Hopefully after these cool art projects and StarLab some of my kids have also caught the astronomy bug. I did an astronomy/space project with each grade but I have to admit that the astronauts made by my fourth graders are my favorite. I have seen a couple different astronaut projects on line but most of them had the students draw his/her face in the helmet. I wanted to take a slightly different approach. Instead of a face in the helmet we added the reflection of either the moon or the earth.
To begin I showed some pretty cool videos of real astronauts in actual space! I will say it completely blew some minds. We watched an astronaut eat in space, sleep in space, how to wash your hair in space, and what happens to a wet towel in space <-- (my favorite one). Once we got drawing students were given a large circle template to trace for the helmet. From there students were shown how to draw the rest of the astronaut suit. The following week we talked about how lights and shadows typically look in space, very strong raking light from one side. Students shaded his/her astronaut with black and blue colored pencils and then could add patches to the uniform.
The final week each student was given a black piece of paper and we went over how to draw either the moon or the earth. This part was done with chalk pastels and they could also add shooting stars and the like around the edge. Once this was completed we actually cut out where the face would be in the helmet and glued the black paper behind the astronaut. This resulted in the final look of the earth or moon reflecting in the helmet!
To begin I showed some pretty cool videos of real astronauts in actual space! I will say it completely blew some minds. We watched an astronaut eat in space, sleep in space, how to wash your hair in space, and what happens to a wet towel in space <-- (my favorite one). Once we got drawing students were given a large circle template to trace for the helmet. From there students were shown how to draw the rest of the astronaut suit. The following week we talked about how lights and shadows typically look in space, very strong raking light from one side. Students shaded his/her astronaut with black and blue colored pencils and then could add patches to the uniform.
The final week each student was given a black piece of paper and we went over how to draw either the moon or the earth. This part was done with chalk pastels and they could also add shooting stars and the like around the edge. Once this was completed we actually cut out where the face would be in the helmet and glued the black paper behind the astronaut. This resulted in the final look of the earth or moon reflecting in the helmet!
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