Bike Drawings

Complimentary Color Bike Drawings

In order to help our students be better prepared for their auditions to the Visual Arts Department at Suitland High School, one of the projects our Art 3 work on is drawing a Bike from observation.  

For this Bike drawing the students were using a complimentary color scheme to create the shadows and highlights on their portion of the bike.

Complimentary colors are colors that are across from each other of the color wheel.

The students practiced and sketched numerous times before decided upon an angle of the bike and the complementary color scheme that they wanted to use.

Below are some student examples of their complementary color bike drawings.

Kindergarten Robots

What do we need to make a Robot?

For this project the students are continuing to improve upon their shape and size recognition.

The students were directed to draw a robot using a variety of shapes.  We used squares/rectangles for the head, body, and arms.  The students could use triangles of the hands and buttons.  They were directed to use circles for the eyes, buttons, and wheels/feet.

The students did a great job at recognizing their different shapes and organizing them to create a robot.  Below are some adorable student examples of their robots.

Color Mixing

1st Grade- Mixed Up Mice

In first grade one of our more popular projects is our color mixing unit.  Last year the students created color chicks and this year we have created Mixed Up Mice.

The main focus for this project is to learn how to use our primary colors (red, yellow, blue) to create the secondary colors (orange, purple, green).

We began by reading the book Mouse Paints by Ellen Stoll Walsh.  This book tells the story of 3 little mice who climb 3 colorful jars of paint (yellow, red, and blue).  As the little mice climb out of the jars of paint and begin to step into different colored puddles of paint they soon realize they can create new colors when they mix 2 colors together.  

As we read the book the students completed the color addition worksheet, seen below.  

The students then participated in a directed drawing where we used different letters, shapes, and lines to draw 6 mice on a narrow piece of paper.

Student examples are shown below.

The students used a technique called marker painting to create their primary and secondary colors.  Strips of primary colors were drawn on each mouse to help the students with color mixing and painting.  
For more information about marker painting please contact me.

Watercolor Technique

Art 2's Watercolor Techniques 

For our second quarter project the Art 2's are working on a watercolor landscape.  In order to prepare the students to use this new material the students practicing using the watercolors 8 different ways.

We began by looking at the Crayola website that describes the different ways/techniques for using watercolor paints.  If you want to take a look at the website the link is listed below.

http://www.crayola.com/things-to-do/how-to-landing/watercolors.aspx

The Techniques Practiced Are:

Color Saturation
Wash of Color
Overlay
Wet vs. Dry
Salt Sprinkles
Plastic Wrap
Crayon Resist
Color Pencil Resist

The students had a great time experimenting and practicing with this new material.

Below are some of the student examples of working with different watercolor techniques.