5th Grade: Drawing, Drawing, & Drawing!

Wow, 5th graders love to draw! We are about to move into our painting unit soon but Old High 5th graders have been busy over the past month learning about drawing and gaining confidence with their individual abilities.
We started out the year with cartooning and learning how to create interesting characters with simple shapes. Below are some samples of our cartoon knights.
We have moved into Mondrian inspired drawings. There are a couple pictured below and I will be sure to post more soon.

Cartoon Knights:

Some Piet Mondrian inspired drawings (more to come):

6th Grade "Interest" Projects

Finally. after almost entire month of hard work, sweat, grit, and noise, I am posting some of our completed 6th grade Interest Projects. We started out the year with some simple drawing exercises then jumped right into projects based on what the students wanted to learn most about.
With the help of our new classroom laptops, and stations, students had access to a wide array of materials to create.
Below you will see everything from 2D and 3D cardboard construction to paintings and pencil drawings. You'll see mixed-media, replicas, and games. Students enjoyed the opportunity to simply experiment with art materials in ways some have never tried.
Upon completion of a few more activities, the students will write written reflections based on what they have learned about the elements of art and their chosen materials.
Take a look:

Intro to Drawing Week

Our introduction to drawing week went extremely well!
5th and 6th grade students worked on a step-by-step cartoon, comic-style comic drawing of a knight. An army of knights were created as hundreds were drawn!

The students will be taking theirs home this week so you can see their amazing skills in person. Our classes showed 100% success and I am pleased with the results.
Our goal from this activity was to show the students how they can make interesting, easy, and fun drawing by simply working with shapes and lines.

My goal was for every student to discover their own individual talents. I am looking forward to future projects with all of my class.

-Mr. D