Elementary Art with Miriam Cutelis: artists

3/1/23

3/11/17

9/28/16

3-D face sculptures inspired by joyce Owens

Joyce Owens is an artist from Chicago who both paints and creates these amazing 3d face sculptures/ assemblages/reliefs. See here work HERE. Children were shown her work in class and seeing as we have been working on identifying parts of our faces (see those lessons HERE and HERE) this was the logical next step.

These faces took three 35-minute lesson.

1. Glue on base parts

2. Use 6 colors, red, yellow, blue, black, white and brown to paint the entire face.

3. Continue painting, this time, with thinner brushes to detail.

The recycled materials ranged from corks, cut up toilet paper tubes, raffia, too-short-to-use colored pencils, tape rolls, popsicle sticks, cut-up cardboard.

Finished works hung in the hallways. Teachers hot glue a loop in the back with some yard to make it easy to staple on a bulletin strip or board.

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5/25/16

4th graders create Picasso- inspired portraits

I am super proud of these creations. I had to be out of school Tuesday and left some lessons plans for the substitute. The lesson plan for the 4th graders, who normally come to art for an hour and 10 minutes needed to be involved and complex to fill the whole time. I had the teacher read a biography about Picasso to the students first. After, they used a worksheet to help them plan their faces. Last, they used oil pastels to color in the faces and the background. I think I may use this again soon. The results were very pleasing.