How DEEP (How much depth?) is your Cityscape?

Alimacani Students continue to learn virtually in Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio!

This week, students are led by art teacher, Mrs. Woodlief in drawing a cityscape. In this recorded drawing lesson, students learn how to create depth in their art by overlapping to create a foreground, middle ground and background.

Why don't YOU watch the video so you can be artists like these 3rd grade students?

   

Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio: Let's Draw Geometric Butterflies!

Alimacani Students continue to learn virtually in Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio. Primary level students are led by art teacher, Mrs. Woodlief and her puppet Arturo, as they instruct viewers, in a recorded art lesson, how to draw a symmetrical butterfly adding geometric shapes. Reflecting on lessons learned in math, students use circles. squares, ovals, triangles and rectangles to show their knowledge of math concepts such as symmetry - the same on both sides. Check out the video to see how it all happens!

                                                     

Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio: Michelangelo Upside-Down Drawing

In this art assignment, my intermediate students will crawl under the kitchen table, lie on their backs and make art just like Michelangelo when he painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel.

Virtual Drawing Lesson: Botanical Drawings

Alimacani students continue to learn virtually in Mrs. Woodlief's Virtual Art Studio.  In this recorded lesson, students learn about the science and history of botanical drawing.  

Travel into Mrs. Woodlief's front yard in search for the perfect specimen to draw a botanical drawing of a plant.   Students learn that long ago, before the invention of photography, scientists relied on artists to draw accurate drawings of the plants they were studying.  Each species was carefully studied, drawn and cataloged for documentation.  

The video below shows students the steps to create their own a botanical drawing. 

Click to view How to Draw a Botanical Drawing.