Directed Drawing – Flying Bats

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!

Tertiary Colour Exploration

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.









Who says, “Giraffes Can’t Dance” …

We read the above-named book, by Giles Andreae and had a discussion on how we can all do things to the sound of our own music.  Students then followed a directed drawing lesson creating their own unique ‘Geralds’ on yellow construction paper.  They decorated their blue background paper, cut out, and mounted their giraffes, adding a string tail.  These are on the bulletin board in our hallway.






















Elements of Art

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:


Showing our stuff …

They were all SO happy to share their work with some older classes🙌🏻
A HUGE thank you to Ms. Branco (with Division 3) and Ms. Sansom (with Division 1) who accepted our invitation to see our hard work 💗💝💖

We set up in the downstairs corridor.  Ms. Volpe and our daytime custodian, Ben, also appreciated the work and enthusiastically told the students how they felt.