Footprints in the Snow...

 Footprints in the Snow

In this project we will learn about secondary colors and perspective.

Materials:

watercolor paint

Sharpie

a circle tracer

a pencil

water and a paintbrush

1. Secondary Colors- the colors you get when you mix the primary colors.

yellow+red=orange

yellow+blue=green

red+blue=purple

 

For this painting you will only be using the secondary colors

2. Using perspective to make your work look real. 

As things move away from you they appear smaller.

When things are closer to you, they take up more of your field of view,

so they seem bigger. When they're further away, they take up less of your

field of view, and so seem smaller.

Steps

Step 1. Draw the trunk of your first tree.

Step 2. Draw the first layer of your tree

on top of the trunk. It looks like a mustache.

Step 3. Now draw the second layer of your tree but smaller. 

Step 4. Now draw a third layer.

Step 5. Finish drawing layers of the tree until it is as tall as you

want it to be.

Step 6. Draw a snow hill behind your tree.

Step 7. Now add in another snow hill and start another tree there. Remember to make the new tree smaller than the first one.

Objects farther away appear smaller.

Step 8. Add in more trees.

Step 9. Find something to draw a circle with. I used a roll of tape.

Step 10. Use your tracer to draw a circle for the sun.

 

Step 11. Now watercolor paint your drawing using only the secondary colors-

Orange, Green and Purple

Step 12. Using a pencil create a shadow under the tree

by rubbing the pencil on its side.

Step 13. Give each tree a cast shadow.

Step 14. Add in your footprints. 

Remember the footprints will appear smaller as they move 

away from you over the hill. You may want to make

boot prints instead of foot prints....the snow is cold.

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5th Grade Number Project...

This project is inspired by the work of the famous artist Jasper Johns...

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Date created: 1961

I found these number stencils at Scrap RVA in Richmond, Virginia. Scrap RVA is an arts and craft recycle store...and it is awesome! I teach Scrappy Creatures and Japanese Stab Binding at Scrap RVA. If you are ever in the Richmond area you must add it to your do-to-list. 

You can buy a set of these graphic number stencils on Amazon, just click on the link below...

  

You will also need a circle tracer as well. I got this one at Michaels with my weekly 40% off coupon. 

You can get it on Amazon by clicking the link below...

The paper size for this project is 12x18 90# white multi use paper by Pecon.

Students pick their 3 favorite numbers to trace with a pencil. The first number should be traced 

right-side up.

The second number is placed over the first number but this time it should be traced upside down.

The third number is placed over the first 2 and can be traced in any direction the student chooses...either right-side up or upside down. Any of the 3 numbers can be traced backwards as well. 

Using the circle tracer add 3 different size circles overlapping the numbers somewhere on the paper.

Use a fine tip Sharpie to trace over all the pencil lines.

Fill in the small spaces with lines using the Sharpie.

Add shading in some of the corner points with a pencil. I just have the kids smooth out the

pencil lines with their fingers or you can use a blending tool.

You can order blending tools on Amazon by clicking the link below ...

After you have finished all the corner shading start to add your color.

I let my students choose between colored pencils or water colors.

I use Crayola colored pencils and a mix of Prang and Crayola watercolors in my art room.

 Colored Pencils

Watercolor

Jasper Johns painted the entire canvas for his art work tilted  0-9  

I only have my students paint inside the numbers and circles but you can try it either way. 

Let me know what you think and please share your results if you try this project in your class room. You can email me at 

artroomblog@yahoo.com

Check back for new projects and ideas every Thursday.

4th Grade World Space Week 2018...

2nd Grade Space Week Rocket to Another Planet...

 Each year we celebrate Space Week at the end of September. 

In second grade I have students think about what it would be like to travel to another planet. It is something they might actually get to do in their life time.

 The first step is to create a new world, a planet far away. 

What would the ground look like?

What would the new sky look like?

Draw your outlines using a black crayon and then use watercolor paint

to create your new planet.

 Next we use a straw to create Nebulas.

Place a very watery drop of paint on the paper and

then using your straw blow as had as you can to create

streaks in the paint.

I make sure to tell the kids not to share their straws and 

the straws much be thrown away as soon as you are done using them.

 

To create the rocket we use a separate sheet of paper and then color it with markers.

When the rocket has been colored students will cut it out and glue to on their new planet.

4th Grade Water Reflections of Sailboats...

 We are working on water reflections in 4th grade. I like the way they turned out and the kids really seemed to like their work on this project.

1st Grade Cow Jumping Over the Moon...Getting Ready for World Space Week....

Each year at my school we celebrate Space Week, which is Friday Oct 4-Thursday Oct 10 this year (2019). This years theme is "The Moon: Gateway to the Stars"

 I love the image of the cow jumping over the moon. I had a student win the Judge's Choice Award in the TEXAS Art Educators Association Youth Art Contest back in 2009 for her cow over the moon. That painting hung in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston all summer that year. So proud of her. We are actually Facebook friends now that she is all grown up. I hope she remembers her elementary school art teacher when she is a famous artist!

Diana M. and (me) Lee Darter at the MFA Houston

So in honor of  World Space week I will read The Cow Jumped Over the Moon to my 1st grade and then we create art based on the work by Cally Jane Studios.

You can by the book on Amazon HERE

 

 Click HERE to go to Cally Jane Studios