Unique Trees

Third grade started off the school year learning about how every artist has a unique style. Some paint things realistically, some paint abstractly. Everyone does things a little differently. When teaching an art lesson, I usually do an example project for those visual learners like me who need to see something to understand the instructions. With elementary kids, they have a tendency to want to copy what I do, but I really want to see what they can come up with on their own.

For this project, we started off by looking at how several different artists represented trees in their artwork. Each artist's trees were a little different, even though it was the same subject. The students had to draw their own unique tree, making sure not to copy mine or their neighbor's. The following are some of those unique trees.

Bailey H., JJ B.

Henry H.

Hailey M.

Sidney M.