We made three different kinds of small poppies; one set for the class wreath that will be part of our Remembrance Day Assembly on Wednesday, and one set for our small bulletin board by the Office (above).

We also made large poppies, in the style of Georgia O’Keefe, which we created through a Directed Drawing lesson (using china markers) and painting. Once the paintings were dry they were re-traced with the china markers, cut out, and glued onto green construction paper. These are on our large bulletin board in the hallway.

We began with our drawing pencils and plain white cartridge paper.  Students followed the directed drawing lesson done on our white board. The results were remarkable:

Students then re-created their bats on tan coloured 12” x 18” construction paper.  They were instructed to ensure that they outlined their bats, coloured their pictures to show the bat’s fur, and make the bats the central point of the art piece.  Students worked with drawing pencils and waxed crayons. They could then add other Autumn pictures to complete their scenes as they wanted.  They were encouraged use their tertiary art techniques from last week’s lesson. These are on the bulletin board in our hallway:

I think they all look spectacular!

This was last week’s Art lesson.

After a review of Primary colours (red, blue, yellow), which cannot be made from other colours, Secondary colours (orange, green, and purple) which are made from equal amounts of the Primary colours, and Intermediate colours which are uneven amounts of the Primary colours (red-orange, yellow-green, etc.) we explored the making of Tertiary colours which is the making of new colours by mixing Secondary colours.

Students explored making russet (orange and violet), slate (green and violet), and bronze (orange and green) while creating an Autumn scene with waxed crayons.

We had loads of fun this afternoon colouring and cutting out a turkey template and then creating our own feathers out of construction paper!

They are very colourful 🌈

Our first Art lesson introduced the six elements  (building blocks) of Art: line, shape, colour, form, texture, and value.  Line, shape, colour, and form are fairly obvious, although many students did not know that black, brown, and white are not considered to be true colours.  Texture is how something feels, or how it looks like it feels. Value is lightness and darkness.  In its basic form, value is white and black and all the gradients in between.  With colour, value is the addition of white and black to show different shades and tints of the basic colours.

Students were to use a variety of wax coloured crayons to show these elements.  There were rubbing plates and plastic tracers that they could use.  Their work is displayed on the bulletin board in our classroom.

Here are some ‘in progress’ photos: