6th Grade Candido Bido paintings

6th graders learned about the life and art of one of the most influential Dominican artists, Candido Bido. Then, we went through his body of work and discussed the similarities in his paintings (color, painting style, texture, women, etc.) and they each chose their favorite Bido painting to recreate in their own way.

Thaneeya McArdle project

5th and 6th graders were inspired by the current artist Thaneeya McArdle after discovering one of her beautiful coloring books and going through her fun website and blog. They chose different Thaneeya drawings to re-create with colored pencil, watercolor and sharpie.

6th grade Warhol objects

6th graders did a quick Andy Warhol project to learn about the color wheel and contrasting colors. They chose 1 object and re-drew it 4 times, painting with bright, contrasting colors each time.

Sunglasses Self Portraits

7th and 8th graders impressed me so much using the grid system to create a self portrait. I took all of their photos with sunglasses on, I didn't want them to worry about drawing eyes, because that is the hardest part to make look realistic. They folded their printed photo into 24 sections, and recreated the same grid on their final paper. They drew their photograph with pencil, learning how to shade different facial features and hair. Then, they used colored pencils to draw a dream of theirs inside of their sunglass lenses.