St. Basil's Cathedral with Chalk Pastel
Second grade spends the year traveling the globe and creating art from various countries. The students even fill out passports for each country we study.
This unit is on Russia. Students love St. Basil's Cathedral because of its bright colors and Castle-like towers.
I've done a variety of projects about St. Basil's over the years, and decided this year we would use Dry Pastel, I had a hard time deciding on the process, though. Should we use black paper or white paper? Should we outline first or not? So... this year, I decided to do all of them. I have 3 different groups, and each did their project a little differently. Why not?!? I'm finding the work inspiring in its variety. Who knows, maybe one year I will get brave enough to let the students chose their path!
Check out some of the students' great work in progress.
