Kindergarten: I am Dali self-portrait drawings

More examples of student artwork coming this way, but here's a super adorable one for now. This lesson on Surrealist, Salvador Dali, was a lot of fun and so easy for young students to understand, thanks to the awesome book above that I heard of via Cassie Stephens equally awesome blog. Every page is a surreal picture in itself so I had the students look for what was surreal about each picture. My basic definition of it was art that looks real, but couldn't happen in real life. As a fun tribute to Salvador Dali, students drew self-portraits with Dali's famous mustache. You can imagine all the laughs that ensued when I showed them my own example;) Stay tuned for more drawings!

Third-Fifth: Dali's Melting Clocks

The Persistence of Memory, 1931

My summer school students learned all about Salvador Dali during Art week and had so much fun interpreting his surreal paintings. Out of white model magic, they used the table to bend and warp their clocks into a "melting" shape. They painted the outer rim with gold paint and made their numbers with black model magic. The hour and minute hands were made with black cardstock pinned down with a brass pin that was held in place with a drop of hot glue in the back.