Students love to look at and discuss art! For this project first graders pointed out all sorts of interesting things in winter landscapes using the language of the arts. They learned that to create the illusion of space in your artwork, objects will appear to be getting smaller and smaller. They learned about foreground, middle ground and background. They also learned how overlapping creates the illusion of space. Students traced their circles into snowmen, added horizon lines and then used a combination of oil pastel and construction paper crayons to add fabulous details. Nothing says winter in Illinois more than snow, wind and snowmen!!
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We read "Snowmen at Night" by Caralyn Buehner. We studied the illustrations as we read the story and had some great discussions on value, shape, form, line, space and color. We made observations on light source, all the different faces, hats, scarves and things that the snowmen were doing. After the story we got to work creating our own snowmen using value to make our shapes look like 3-diminsional forms. We started by drawing overlapping circles for the snowmen. Students used oil pastel for a majority of the artwork, and then used some color pencil to add detail.
Second grade students practiced creating value scales using colored pencils. Next we drew a wavy line, then added bumps along it.We started with two bumps on each side and then began coloring using value to make it appear 3-dimensional. As students finished coloring the bumps, I had them add a bump and then color it. That way no matter what point they were at when art class was finished so was their project! They needed a few reminders to take their time, as it became a race for some to see if they could fill their page rather than working towards good craftsmanship.
We learned watercolor painting techniques in fourth grade! We compared/contrasted winter artwork in a PowerPoint first. Students noticed a theme in color palette choices and they searched for clues that demonstrated the use of space within each painting. Let the taping begin! "Why would we put tape on our artwork where we want our trees"? Students obliged me and made tape trees. "We're going to paint right over them, but huh"? We learned about washes and painted skies and then added some shadows in the snow. Love to see the light bulb go on when we finally take the tape off! Students learned about the dry brush technique when making the bark for their trees.
Lesson aligned with ELA Common Core unit "Literature Settings: Weather or Not" Second grade students learned about positive/negative space. I had them create the same project as first grade since this was their first year of art as well. They used marker and water for the background, traced their hand, cut it out, glued it down and added expressive lines and shapes using metallic marker. They were very striking when hung all together in the hall!
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Mrs. Kendell
I was a graphic designer for many years, and then decided to make the leap into art education. I taught elementary art for 8 years. Archives
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