Sketchbook Cover Name Design!
Students began the year with an ELEMENTS OF ART REVIEW and SKETCHBOOK COVER NAME DESIGN! Students utilized Elements of Art!:
-Line (variation)
-Shape (pattern and space)
-Color (Mixing and blending)
-Value (Gradients tints and Shades)
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Sketchbooks will be used through the year for planning worksheets, Artist statements, sketching, and preliminary sketches!
Primary Color, Blending, Value Changes, and Paint tin Use Review!
2017-2018 School year
Students will discuss the theme of Dandelion Regeneration and Wishes for our New School’s Fountain sculpture! Students will discuss the use of mood, imagery, and sensory words, rhyming, alliteration, and personification within a Poem about a dandelion. Students will write a poem about a dandelion in the Stage they are most inspired by: a Bud, a seed, a flower in full bloom, a weed, a seed head, or the process of seeds being wished away of blowing in the wind. Students will utilize their poem to create a mixed media, water color painting, fine line pen, fabric, wallpaper, yarn, foam, felt, and more collage inspired by their poem! Students will utilize these materials to create realistic texture and color by using their observational drawing practice and techniques. Students will then decide on final composition, unity, font, and color scheme for their poem to collage with their artwork!
Creative Color Wheel Composition
Primary and Secondary Colors
-3rd Grade Student artists will discuss the use of a color wheel to find color schemes, primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary Colors.
-Students will discuss unique color wheel compositions containing 6 parts for secondary and primary colors.
-Students will create a personally inspired theme to create a unique Color Wheel Composition.
-Students will use only Primary Colors to paint the primary and secondary colors within their color wheel.
-Students will add oil pastel details to complete their Color Wheel Composition Design.
3rd Grade Textured Hands with the Elements of Art
-3rd Grade Student artists will identify, explore, and experiment with the Elements of Art- Line, shape, color, value, texture, form, and space.
-Students will create Space and form through painting a value scale within a hand drawing and in the background.
-Students will use contrasting colors and decide on a unique hand composition.
-Students will then utilize varied repeating shapes and lines to create unique textures.