Dali Elephants

Dali and Surrealism

There are so many ways to approach Salvador Dali and his unique work.  The most difficult challenge is finding appropriate images to show kids in my Power Point show.  I admit to cropping photos of his work in my presentation-not changing them.  In theory, I feel that exposing them to blips of his work is better than not showing them anything at all.

First, I want to mention that I was inspired to change my ideas up a bit after seeing Dali's elephants on the Georgetown Elementary Art Blog!  Thank you for your inspiration- I loved your results.  The link is here.

These are the results for my 6th grade students:

Above:  one of my incredible girls, Ashley

Dali's elephants are a fun way to engage students creativity while exploring the concepts of Surrealism.

Ours were sketched out on watercolor paper.  We considered ways to shade our elephants using our pencils- which was a great review of the gray scale and finding different values to make an object more 3-D. 

We used watercolor paints for the background.


The Dali slide show can be found under the presentation link - top, right document share.