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!