The first grade students created watercolor resist paintings of their houses. We discussed the "stereotyped" version of a house (a rectangle with a triangle on top for the roof), and we decided that each person's house is unique and looks different. Instead of following the stereotyped method of creating their houses, the students made an effort to draw the shapes of their actual houses.
"An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams." --Anna Held Audette from the book, The Blank Canvas
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
3rd Grade Collages
Creative Color Wheels
For the sixth graders' first art project of the year they are making creative color wheels! The students learned how to mix the three primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) in order to create secondary colors (orange, green, violet) and tertiary colors (red-violet, blue-violet, red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green).
More photos will be posted soon of the completed color wheels.
More photos will be posted soon of the completed color wheels.