Valentine's Day Heart Art...

1st Grade

Gridded Hearts

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Kindergarten/ 1st Grade 

What to do with all that scrap boarder paper?

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2nd Grade

In the style of Molas 

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3rd Grade

Donated music sheets? Why yes I will take that!

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4th Grade

4 Part Heart

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5th grade

Complimentary Colors/ Value Changes

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Art Club

Printmaking/Positive/Negative Space

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Sunset on the Gulf...

So just getting back from my beach vacation this past Christmas I wanted to do a sunset theme painting because that is just what we do on the island every night, watch the sunset!

So the first step is to use watered down black tempera paint for the black lines.

Then allow that to dry.

We discussed warm and cool colors and value changes.

I showed students how adding more or less water to their brushes changes the colors 

from more intense with less water to washed out with lots of water. 

We also worked in layering the same color to add changes in value. 

The last step is to go back and add designs on top of the work using a darker or lighter value of the same color.

4th Grade Value Change and Complementary Color Rose...

5th Grade Value Change and Warm/Cool Colors ...

Value change hearts. Students get 2 colors and a little black and white to create their hearts.

On a 12x12 sheet of 90# white paper draw a large heart using a pencil

Using a ruler or straight edge draw vertical lines across the paper.

Then draw horizontal lines across the paper.

Now you can start painting the heart.

Choose either a warm or cool color for the heart. Then the other color group will be selected from for the back ground.

You could also use a  complimentary color arrangement. 

After students paint the heart then they can start on the background.

During class we ran out of paper towels so our wonderful janitor Mr. Le brought us some more. He gave one of my awesome kiddos the old paper roll. I love my job!!!

2nd grade Easy Peasy Piggies for Value Change...

Way to cute for words!

First we talked about the basic shapes of the drawing,

oval or egg shaped bodies, oval nose, round eyes and pupils (color in the pupils with a Sharpie)

and triangle ears. 

The pigs should stack up one behind the other and there should be 6 pigs, one for each color of the basic color wheel.

Then paint each pig Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet

We discusses how adding more water to your brush and paint make the colors washed out and pale and not added very much water at all make the colors darker and more vibrant.

After you are done painting all the pigs the basic colors of the color wheel go back and add more of the same color to areas and different values of the same color in other areas.

The last step is to paint the background black.

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