More work inside the COLOR WHEEL!

Our work on colors has continued! 

4 year old kindergarteners created dream catchers! They painted the circle using a palette of warm OR cool colors. Then, they weaved yarn through the holes in the plate to create the inner web of the dream catcher. 

4th and 5th graders have experimented with the value (tint or shade) of a hue (color)! A lot of new vocabulary came along with this monochromatic art work. Monochromatic means one color, so students needed to mix black paint in to make a darker shade, and white paint to make a lighter shade of the hue of their choice. 

         

(an example of a monochromatic painting)

The other students have been using beautiful colors too- but their work is still in progress and will be shared with you all in our next blog post about Famous Artists! Here is sneak peek of their colorful work!

Lastly, I leave you all with a photo of some of our art displayed in the halls of Wilson. Thanks for checking out our art class happenings!

COLORS!

In the past two weeks we have been focusing on one of the elements of art: color! 

First, the students created a color wheel using colors they found and cut out of magazines. The 4-year old kindergarteners focused on the 3 primary colors (red, yellow and blue) by creating a triangle. Kindergarteners through fifth graders  made a wheel using at least 6 colors (the primary and secondary). Some students even found tertiary colors. Tertiary colors are the colors you get when you mix a primary color with a secondary color, for example blue-green. 

After learning the order of the color wheel and the different types of colors, the students got busy working on projects using those colors and color schemes (primary, secondary, warm, cool colors) to create a picture. 

(photos of students working on a color-scheme landscape picture using oil pastels)

An example of a finish product: 

Some students created Birds of Color paintings showing the order of colors in the color wheel!

4-K students painted water color resistant paintings using primary colors. They discovered that despite only starting with primary colors (red, yellow & blue), they ended up with many other colors because of the mixing!