Blue Dog

Throughout all of the grade levels one things that I focus on teaching again and again is teaching students to draw using basic shapes that they know and are familiar with. For our most recent project in first and second grade we looked at the artist George Rodrigue and his paintings of Blue Dog as inspiration.

We started off by reading Why Is Blue Dog Blue? by George Rodrigue and Bruce Goldstone, students looked at the illustrations and identified all the basic shapes that they knew and could use to help them draw their own blue dog such as oval, circle, rectangle and triangle. 

After completing several planning sketches students moved onto larger final drafts; drawing blue dog then adding in a background from their imagination. Lastly students painted their blue dog. 

Blue Dog at a Museum