Still Lives 

Do Now: Imagine you were looking out of the window from an airplane. Draw what you see. 

As part of our "Genres of Art" unit, the 3rd and 4th grade is spending between 1 and 3 weeks on "portraits" "still lives" and "landscapes". Today, we started our "still lives" portion.

Students gathered in the common room, and were faced with this...

… a large scale still life.

Students were given a pencil, paper, a clipboard, and the remainder of art class to try to draw the still life as accurately as possible. They were allowed to focus on individual sections of the display (the jack-o-lantern, or the stump and the flower)or, if they were feeling ambitious, the entire still life.

They did an amazing job! They were focused and determined, and the results were beautiful.