Shelter Animal Portrait

Bringing awareness to shelter animals with our art and community service!

In this cross curricular project, students selected an animals from a local animal shelter. In art class, students learned how to draw their animal subject accurately using shapes. Then, with close observation of a photograph, students painted their furry friends practicing color mixing and created a variety of neutral values, tints, tones and shades. we created implied textures for the fur and painted a vibrant background hue. In the classroom, students used their persuasive writing skills to write a letter to persuade someone to adopt their animal. On community service day, students worked to created a variety of items like dog treats and toys for animal shelters. This project shed light on the importance of adopting animals in shelters who need loving homes.