Art Curriculum- Week 15- Eye of Surrealism

Week 15- Eye of Surrealism

Welcome back to the 2015 school year! We began our 2nd half of the school year with a simple project on surrealism.

Our last project in December involved making "dancing snowmen" accompanied by a story involving what snowmen do at night. :) To view it click here.

Category: Surrealism

What you will need:

-simple eye coloring sheet (I drew my own eye, but if you don't want to Google has an endless supply)
-markers (2 different blues = 1 light/1dark, a black marker)

Time: 30 minutes (at the most)

• Each child got their own eye to color and a blank piece of paper
  
• I taught them how to make clouds (pictured below) and rain drops. We discussed our favorite kinds of weather. I then explained that what we were doing was called surrealism, where you take something normal and put a twist on it. So if you're favorite weather was a pink and orange sunset and you really liked trees; then you could paint a pink and orange sunset with a pretty tree in your eye to represent that.

Practice Sheets:

• Draw clouds first in lighter blue and raindrops in darker blue
  
• color the raindrops dark
  
• fill in the rest of the sky with the lighter blue
  
• draw in the pupil with a black marker

And taa-daa! That's it!

Overall: A very simple project and easy to execute if pressed for time.

Related posts:

-Fauvism and Zebras
-Self-Portrait

(logging 1 hour for prep and execution)