Warm colors.

 

Third Grade has been studying color theory pretty hard.  On this one we discussed the warm colors and when to use them.  One of my goals this year is to get third graders to understand color really well and how to use it.

It's all about perspective.

 

Fourth grade did a color study where they had to paint a sunset.  We discussed how this color order makes sense.  They showed good use of space as they painted the sun first and then added the other colors in order from there.  We then talked about perspective and how we want to make our composition seem like we are looking up.  We painted ink trees from different angles and diluted the ink to create ghost trees that appear further back.  Fourth grade got it!  

 

Brushstroke trees.



Fifth Grade showed me they knew a variety of ways to use their paintbrushes by painting various trees along a horizon line.  They twisted, blotched, dabbed, brushed, scrubbed and any other action word you could use to create their trees.  Some even used the wrong end of their brush.  This was a great problem solving activity!



Owls of pattern.

Second grade drew owls along with me and then used crayon, oil pastel, and tempera paint to create pattern and color.  A little bit of depth through overlapping thrown in there as well.  It was a good one day activity!  Whoo!