sunrise artists' pattern papers All students reviewed color schemes using tints of complementary colors to paint patterned papers. Artists experimented with everyday objects to print and stamp patterns with complementary contrasts. It was a FUN way to begin the school year!
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Sunrise Barns by grade 5 artists Thanks to Deep Space Sparkle's lesson, my great barn architects drew barns in perspective! We learned about the use of one point perspective to create a sense of space by using overlapping techniques and we applied our measuring and math skills! Yeee Hawww!
A Bloom of Jellyfish Pastel Paintings. First, third grade artists painted their backgrounds with tempera paint value gradations. They blended their pastel jellyfish for a transparent effect while adding tints and shades to their forms. Beautiful! Woven Fish Collages: 2nd graders were learning about warm and cool colors. What fun they had with this multi-step project! A bundle of skills: Salted watercolor wet into wet painted backgrounds; warm and cool painted papers cut into looms and woven with paper; drawing, cutting out and collaging fish; then the finale: stamping other sea creatures around their main fish focus!
Keep on swimmin'........... My favorite Whale painting!! Second graders at Booker T. Washington did rapid sketches with graphite sticks on large format 18" x 24" paper. They painted their whale scene with Tempera Cakes and added "splash techniques" for a "wow" effect!. They accomplished this in one 4o minute lesson!
They just BLEW me away!! I was excited to be working again with Kindergarten-2nd grade children at Central and Booker T. Washington Elementary Schools. Summer Art Theme: Under the Sea Aren't these GREAT whales? Third graders at Central had a "whale" of a time with their collages. Fun Fact: Whales expel clouds of bubbles as they hunt fish to eat: So, we did bubble prints onto our cool color tissue paper water backgrounds!
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Here I am with my husband, Timothy, at the beautiful Bosque Del Apache wildlife refuge near Socorro, New Mexico
AuthorCynthia Smith teaches art at Columbia and Sunrise Elementary Schools in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Archives
May 2020
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