Jim Dine: 3rd Grade Heart Art

This is another project that I took away from student teaching. The students looked at pictures of Jim Dine's hearts. They always think his hearts are really cool. I make a point of asking them beforehand if they know how to draw hearts and also if they think that they could have a job as an artist just by making hearts. They usually answer yes to the first one and then slowly lower their hands at the second one.

I walked through the stencil-process with the students step-by-step. The students fold the tag-board (or recipe files, in our case!) in half and then draw half of a heart on the fold. I walk around to make sure they have actually drawn it on the fold and also to check and see if their heart-half will result in something that resembles a heart. Some need the dip in the heart lowered.

I honestly think the stencils end up being the most interesting thing about this project! They're so beautiful! Perhaps I will come up with something for the students to do with the stencils...my mind is running already!

The students used the stencils to make these wonderful heart pictures! I apologize for them all being portrait rather than landscape, but it's late and a school night!

She decided they needed to be broken hearts!

 

This student varied the width of the heart.

I'm pretty sure it was on accident, but it looks so interesting!

So there you go! Not an original idea of mine, but this project is so cute! It's supposed to be an introductory lesson to another involving ceramics, but I'm not sure how the kilns here work. Hopefully, one of the more experienced art teachers can do a run-through with me so I can do the clay project with my students!