Our Art lesson last week focussed on the idea of individuality.  We began by looking at a variety of famous artist’s paintings (Monet, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, and more) each with their own particular style, where the only thing in common was that each art piece had at least one tree. Unfortunately the glare is distorting a few of the images.

Students then created their own pieces of art.  They were able to use any of their  colouring media (felt markers, pencil crayons, or wax crayons) for their art piece.

These are displayed on the bulletin board in the hallway outside of our classroom.

Sudents used construction paper, in complementary colours, to create woven patterns.  These are on the bulletin board outside of our room next to the office.

After a directed drawing lesson on flowers – in the style of Georgia O’Keefe – students outlined their pencil drawings with China markers.  These were then painted red with green centres.  After these had dried students re-outlined them, cut them out, and glued them onto green construction paper.  This was also a reinforcement on our lessons on complementary colours (red and green).

As part of our ongoing study of colour theory, students experimented with using two secondary colours (orange and green) to create tertiary colours in their Fall pictures.

It took a bit of practise but most students were able to blend the two secondary colours to create the effect of tree leaves gradually changing colours in the Autumn 🍃🍂🍁🎃