Art Instruction in the Time of COVID-19

 The Elementary Art Department of my school had been slowly making their way into adding the world of digital/virtual instruction into our curriculum...and then COVID hit. We are now in the fast lane of developing these resources. I have been working hard at upping my game in Screencasting, video production and exploring ways to use the Google Suite. Here are a couple of videos. What do you think?

This 4th grade drawing project introduces students to similarities between Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings and electron microscope photography of insects. By focusing on enlarged sections of an insect, students learn some basic drawing techniques used by illustrators and other artists. In addition to learning the approach of drawing the negative spaces first, then focusing on large shapes before small details, students also practice shading with a full range of value.

  

4th grade students began the year with a calligraphic painting lesson based on similar painting examples by Katsushika Hokusai. Students painted 'giant' garden plants common in the "Land of the Midnight Sun" where the almost 24 hours of sunlight influence plant growth. After painting a whopper of a plant, students then created a whopper of a story by transforming their painting with simple stick figure drawings that further emphasized the size of the garden plant.