Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Cacti and other Desert Plants

3rd Graders made these wonderful desert plants out of clay! The lesson pervious to this we created a desert landscape with overlapping hills (Thanks to Lines, Dots and Doodle for the idea). Here is a picture of the landscape painting.



Doing the landscape before the clay lesson made for some great connections and students were more familiar with how desert plants look. I encouraged students to add patterns and rhythms to the pots of their plants to give their artwork more embellishment and details. 


These obviously have not been painted yet, but they have great FORM! 

I love the yellow coils creeping from the pot of the front right piece! 




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