Project: Snowmen on ice
Project: Lion Head color wheel
Steps:
1. Lightly sketch the triangles on the paper to plan out the spaces for the color wheel. 2. Give each table a palette with yellow, blue, and red. 3. Move along together to paint to the color wheel in the correct order. Students mix their own secondary colors as they go. Fill the paper edge to edge. 4. After dry, cut into a rounded square shape. 5. Cut construction paper pieces to create the lion face. The nose should be a different color than the face. Use black for the nose. 6. Glue to the color wheel background. 7. Add texture details to the fur and face in oil pastel. The texture details in the mane should be the same colors as the color wheel piece (i.e. blue lines on the blue triangle piece). Use black and brown for the face. |
ProjecT: Gnome Portrait
The gnome is the "subject" of the artwork and the space around it is the background
Materials: Pencil, Markers or Colored Pencils, 9x12" drawing paper Add a background to your gnome portrait. Fill all empty space. |
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Project: Stacked tea cups
Materials:
Pencil, 12x18" drawing paper, colored pencils, practice copy paper Steps: 1. Start on practice copy paper. Draw a curved line. Draw the rest of the cup but do not connect the top curve line yet. 2. Draw another curved but on a different angle above the first cup and draw the rest of the cup. 3. Continue to the top of the paper. 4. Make sure to change the angle of the cups so that the cups have a more fun tipsy-topsy stacked look. 5. Finish in color. |
Project: showing motion - wet dog painting
Materials:
Tempera paint, pencil, colored pencils, 12x18" black construction paper, 12x18" drawing paper Steps: 1. Place black construction paper in a cardboard box, set up a palette with white and light blue tempera paint. Have students one at a time use a large stiff paint brush to flick some splatter paint. We want a light, misty splatter (not too much!) on the background first. Later, we will go in and paint bigger water drops in paint. 2. While students are waiting on doing the splatter, draw their dog on the 12x18" drawing paper. Discuss how the head shape, the eyes, and the position of the ears shows the motion of a dog shaking water off. 3. Color dog with colored pencil or crayon. Marker outline if desired. 4. When splatter background is dry, cut out dog and glue to background. 5. With white, yellow, light blue, and light purple paint, add larger 'water' drops. Discuss how the swirl direction of the dots and lines are very important to showing motion. They are not just random around the paper. Use a small brush to be neat and be careful not to get paint on the dog. |
Project: "Looking up in the forest" perspective
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Vocab: "perspective"
The point-of-view in the artwork Materials: Pencil, Crayon, 9x12" Watercolor Paper, Watercolor set up Steps: 1. Draw the trunks of the trees, optional to use a ruler. The trunks MUST get skinnier and come to a point towards the middle of the paper, this is how the effect of perspective is achieved. Notice that we do not draw a "ground line" (horizon line) because we are looking up, we only see the sky. 2. Outline the trunks with brown crayon. Choose different shades of brown for more realism. 3. Finish with watercolor. Start with the tree trunks and let them dry a bit before moving on so that the colors do not mix into each other. Add leaves in the middle of the paper, let them dry. Finally, paint blue in the rest of the white space. |
Project: Atmospheric Perspective
Part 1:
Value Scale Materials: Tempera Paint, paintbrush, water cup, paper towel, copy paper Students choose either red, blue, purple, or green (these are the best hues for making a scale). |
Start with the pure hue in the center.
Adding a little bit of white paint, create a lighter shade. Add more white to make an even lighter shade. Do the same on the darker side with black. Be careful, use just a little bit of black, a little goes a long way. |
Part 2: Landscape
Materials:
Pencil, Tempera paint, 9x12" drawing paper Steps: 1. Lightly draw land/mountain lines, making 5 sections. 2. Students choose a hue, again either blue, red, purple, or green. Fill in the sections with shades of the hue. The sections should go lightest at the top to darkest at the bottom. 3. Work to have clean edges between sections, no messy paint strokes. |
Project: Surrealism Value Room
Materials:
Tempera paint, 9x12" paper, magazines, scissors, glue sticks, ruler, pencil Steps: 1. Use a ruler to draw a symmetrical room. Start with a rectangle, draw lines outward from each corner. It's okay if the lines do not meet up with the corner of the paper. 2. Choose a "hue" or color. Make a palette with your hue, black, and white. 3. Paint the room according to the shading guide ---> "True Hue" means your color 4. Make sure to have a clean brush between color mixings. Paint neatly. 5. Let dry. While waiting for paint to dry, you can collect your Surrealism imagery. Magazines are located by the whiteboard. Surrealism means almost like real life but totally unusual and strange - "dream-like". Cut out pieces neatly. 6. Go over pencil lines with black marker. 7. Glue 5 - 6 images. Have fun with surrealism! Put chairs on the ceiling, shoes bigger than a TV, a window on the floor. (These examples don't follow the color shading guide, but are good examples of how to incorporate the magazine pieces)
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Project: 100 color challenge
Materials:
Tempera paint, paint brush, water cup, paper towel Steps: Worksheet are in the sub folder, make copies. 1. Set up each table with two paint palettes: one palette has the primary colors: red, yellow, blue. The second palette has white, black, and brown. 2. Students must mix only a tiny amount of paint at a time because the squares are small. Do not waste paint! 3. Students may use pure hues in their grid. Let dry and come back the next day. Lay out for everyone to see and vote for the person who got the closest to making 100 different colors! |
Can you make ONE HUNDRED different colors?!
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Project: disco ball Marker painting
Materials:
Markers, paint brush, water cup, paper towel, Large white paper 18x24" (located in the front closet), transparency paper (located in the filing cabinet) or plastic bags (located near sink) Steps 1. Use a pizza cardboard (located in the front closet) to trace a circle. 2. Follow the video example for adding the lines - go slow and make sure they are the correct direction. Too many lines will make problems, stick with 6-8 lines. Draw light. |
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: SARI SHRYACK
Follow the video for painting techniques.
3. Practice using markers as watercolor paint in an empty area on your paper. 4. Keep the squares neat with clean edges. 5. Make sure to plan a bright area with light color shades in one area of the disco ball - this will help with the realistic look that the ball is 3D. Put darker colors around the bottom and opposite side of the bright area. 6. Mix in squares of random colors to create the effect of a mirror disco ball. 7. When dry, carefully cut out. 8. Sign initials with marker on front. |
Project: Emoji turkey
Materials
Pencil, 12x12" watercolor paper, watercolor set up, marker
Steps:
1. Draw a turkey head large on the paper. Choose an expression and draw the turkey features so that they display that expression. Discuss how different eyebrow and mouth shapes convey emotion.
2. Color face with watercolor. Remind students to use lots of water so that the watercolor paint is not thick.
3. Let face dry slightly before moving on to the background.
Pencil, 12x12" watercolor paper, watercolor set up, marker
Steps:
1. Draw a turkey head large on the paper. Choose an expression and draw the turkey features so that they display that expression. Discuss how different eyebrow and mouth shapes convey emotion.
2. Color face with watercolor. Remind students to use lots of water so that the watercolor paint is not thick.
3. Let face dry slightly before moving on to the background.