Tints and Shades Landscapes

Fifth graders learned the concept of value and how to create a proper monochromatic (one color) value scale using tints (color + white) and shades (color + black) and a midtone (middle color with no black or white added). They then used their monochromatic value scale to create a sky. Brighter near the moon and darker in the distance. They then used black construction paper to make a foreground silhouette.

Enjoy!

Kindergarten Selfies!

Selfie Time! Or self portraits to the "regular" art world! Kindergarten completed self portrait studies showing four different emotions: happy, sad, angry, and surprised. We also watched this quick movie to emphasize the self portrait concept.

We then had some fun on the ipads making silly faces and then used mirrors to get to work!

Students first drew the basic head, eyes, nose, neck, shoulders and ears using guided instruction. It was then their job to draw their own style of hair as well as how the eyebrows and mouth convey different emotions!

Once the pencil drawings were completed, students used sharpies to create a nice, sharp, contour line drawing. They also used texture plates and crayons to create colored frames for each drawing.

Here are some of the finished projects!

Secondary Color Owls

Ok the next few posts are some of my favorite projects from last year... I promise to be better at keeping up with this blog! Bare with me... this is new territory for me!

First grade students reviewed basic color theory in order to create their own secondary colors! First we reviewed our primary colors (red, blue, yellow) and then how to combine two primary colors to get a secondary (purple, green, orange)!

We also watched this super exciting video that was featured on Sesame Street with the band Ok Go preforming a color mixing song!

We then painted a large piece of paper in three sections. One for each secondary color. After our secondary colored  papers dried, the students chose what colors they wanted to use for the body, tummy and details!  Here are some of the fantastic results!