1st Grade 

Vincent Van Gogh Sunflowers Study

Students cut various sizes of circles to create their flowers. A symmetrical vase was made and decorated with a pattern. 

Marker stems and seeds were made for each flower. Tempera paint was added to make petals. Oil pastels set the background color to complete this masterpiece.

      2nd Grade 

Georges Rouault Study

Rouault was a painter that used a heavy black line around his richly painted colors. Students drew and colored insects in his style. 

The background space was broken into more spaces to look more like stain glass. Rouault's early training was in stain glass. Oil pastel was used to create these rich colors in their work. 

3rd Grade 

Henri Matisse Study

Students created a fish bowl using oil pastels.  Using construction paper they created space on their page by overlapping plants, a table and other items they cut out.  

The background was made like Matisse would work using makers to create a brightly colored pattern. 

  4th Grade 

Andy Warhol Study

Students studied about Warhol's use of repeated images as an important part of the Pop Art style he is known so well for. 

While working with multiple images the students studied about color schemes and then colored each section with oil pastels.

        5th Grade 

Henri Rousseau Study

A watercolor background was made to build the jungle on. Oil pastel was used to color an animal that was drawn from a photograph/magazine page. It was cut out and placed in the jungle scene.

Animals cleverly hide in the oil pastel jungles and behind the wonderful cut shapes of construction paper leaves and plants in the students fantasy jungle - just like Rousseau's work.