This lesson is based on one of my favorite artists, Marc Chagall. I just love his fanciful Surreal paintings, and my students always enjoy pointing out the "odd" things in his work. I found the idea for this lesson on Mary Making. I did have to change the lesson a bit to fit my time constraints, so my results were not as wonderful as hers. However, I think these turned out nice, and my students definitely enjoyed this lesson.
To begin this lesson, I had my students sponge paint a simple blue, white or pink background. While this was drying, I had my students draw three things on a separate piece of paper. Each student drew themselves, an animal, and a plant. These things were then cut out and set aside. Next, I had my students paint buildings with black paint onto their simple sponge painted background. Lastly, my students glued their drawings to their paintings. Since this is surreal art, they could glue these drawing anywhere. They could even make themselves fly, if they chose too.
These look fabulous, very imaginative! I understand exactly what you mean by time constraints - I have a maximum of 1.5 hour per lesson, with a finished item at the end! So lessons which others will do over 2 or 3 session have to be severely adapted and pruned - but the kids still always seem to come up with fantastic, creative results!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to hear that there are others out there who have to finish art projects in one class period. I only see my students once every 8 weeks. They only see me for 75 minutes, so my lessons usually are more scaled down than most art teachers.
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