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Animal Personality Drawings

By Marcia Beckett | November 4, 2016 - 4:41 pm |July 5, 2024 abstract, animals, middle school, self portrait

Here is a really fun twist on self-portraits! I teach the grades K-4/5 at my school and the middle school art teacher is in charge of grades 5/6-8. We have a new art teacher at the middle school level this year and her name is Jayne Baitinger-Peterson. She comes to our school with over 30 years teaching experience at the elementary level and she has been enjoying the change with middle school youth. She gave me permission to share these … Read more… →

Hybrid Machine-Animal Drawings

By Marcia Beckett | August 23, 2015 - 8:21 am |July 5, 2024 abstract, collage, contemporary artists, drawing, fifth grade, sixth grade

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Illustration of a tree figure and a green bear with a water gun, labeled "Hybrid Machine-Animal Drawings.

After looking at the art of contemporary artist Nicolas Lampert, my students combined two or more different objects or creatures to create hybrid drawings. Here are the steps to this lesson: 1. Start by discussing the machine animal collages and the machine insect collages by Nicolas Lampert. Ask questions such as” How do you think Nicolas made these pictures? How do they make you feel? Why do you think he combined animals or insects with machines? How would these … Read more… →