The final class of the summer.......
Acrylics, and wood, all recycled and ready to be a part of your home decor.
The children left their mark on our home
...not to be forgotten.

august 11 opposite colors-

How to create (or avoid) gray through mixing opposite colors:
blue and orange (warm colors)
purple and yello or red and green

August 4th color wheel and the color of emotions

We reviewed primary and secondary colors, and introduced tertiary colors.  

To this end, we made our own color wheels and mixed all our paints from the 3 primaries.

After a break, we used our mixed colors to create abstract paintings to express emotions:

first angry, then peaceful, then light and happy.

One final painting was made, using a color and subject one might like to hang in one's room.

,Students were photographed with their favorite piece of the day. 

great work!

July 21 value, painting with a variety of tools, color mixing

we mixed our colors, then used sponges to paint

each child had created a 3 color pallete, we exchanged pallettes and added more sponged color paint

After the paint dried we cut out shapes of color

...and arranged them in a design on a colored background (composition skills)

some designs were overlapping

some designs were spread out...

some included additional background

color mixing

Before we started mixing colors, we did an exercise in arranging colors by value, from darkest to lightest....In order to accomplish this, kids were instructed to squint so that the colors were less apparent, and the "grays" were more visible.

Only a sample of the art is posted here, but all the kids did a nice job!

July 14th color value in mixing page 2

July 14th- value in color and color mixing

      Today we started by looking at color strips and squinting, in an attempt to see differences in color "value."  There are as many tints (add white) and shades of one color (add black) as you can create.... an unlimited number!

      Each child started with white and two other colors.  We tinted each of the two colors (lighter value) and then mixed the two tinted colors.  The challenge then was to mix three more colors that would round out the values to create a light, medium, and dark color value range.  Each child made their own color strip from dark to light value.
       Kids used their mixed pallet to create two paintings.The first was based on Peter's photograph from last week of a sandcastle on the beach.  I chose it because it had some clearly defined areas of light medium and dark value.

The second project used their pallet mixed with that of another person, and was of their own design.  Both projects remain here for drying and "framing." 

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