Media: light blue construction paper; oil pastels; cotton balls; glue sticks
Category: Art Programme
The Houses of the Three Little Pigs 🐷 🐷🐷
The Three Bears, and a few of their friends …
A directed drawing lesson, followed by colouring in with oil pastels, depicting the bears from our look at the Goldilocks story.
Poppies … Division 7 Remembers 🌺
We made a variety of poppies for Remembrance Day. Students coloured, with markers or pencil crayons, both a ‘traditional’ poppy and one that was designed by an Indigenous artist. These were put on our wreath for display during the assembly. I will add a photo when I get it back from Mr. Stoffberg. We also made poppies in the style of Georgia O’Keefe. These were created through a directed drawing lesson done with pencil. Students then traced over their lines with china markers, also sometimes called grease pencils. Students coloured in the centre with green oil pastels. The poppy petals were painted with red tempera paint. Once the paint had dried, students went over the lines again with the china markers, cut the poppies out, and glued them onto the complementary colour of green construction paper. These are on the bulletin board with a few of the extra small poppies.
Still Life – “Pommes” – in the style of Paul Cezanne
We read a story by Laurence Anholt called, “Cezanne and the Apple Boy” and learned a bit about Paul Cezanne’s life. Students then used oil pastels to re-create one of his paintings through a directed drawing lesson.
Sunflowers in the Style of Vincent Van Gogh
Oil pastel drawings with a paint ”wash” over top … some of the washes were a little heavy …
Chalk Pastel Dinosaur Scenes
Students worked with chalk pastels to create these lovely dinosaur pictures 🦕 🦖
Playing with Texture
Using waxed crayons and bumpy objects …
Every Colour Has Value
As part of our study of the Elements of Art, we have been looking at ’value’ – lightness and darkness.
We experimented with our watercolour pallets and finger-painted some amazing pictures.
We “Value” Art!
We did a quick in-school ’field trip’ by visiting the Art Room next door. We saw all the lovely colours of the various items in there. Then the lights were turned off and we experienced blackness, or darkness. We did this a few times until the students realized that we have no colour without light. Back in the classroom we heard a story about colour and light. We learned that all the colours are in the white light. When we ‘see’ a coloured shirt it is like the shirt is having a party and inviting all the colours, except for the one that we see. That colour is bounced back to our optic nerves and we see it as its colour.
We then learned that black and white are ‘values’, not colours, as they are not in the rainbow of colours. 🌈
Students were introduced to ‘contrast’ (the sudden change from black to white or white to black), and ‘gradation’ (the gradual shift between the two values).
With their white paper they were to create a picture showing the two values while also showing that they understood the concepts of contrast and gradation.
