Seurat's Sunday in the Park
Seurat's Bathers
Van Gough's Sunflowers
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
WATERCOLORS AND SEURAT
Students learned about pointillism and emulated the style using q-tips and WATERCOLORS for their masterpieces. Students had a choice between three outlined pictures of:
Thursday, November 12, 2015
LESSON 5: WATERCOLORS
Students are working with WATERCOLORS. The first part of the lesson is experimenting with wax (crayons) and Watercolors. Students also used different common items as brushes to see the different strokes they created. These items included: paper towels, q-tips, fingerprints, and anything they could think of to change their brushstroke!
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Pixels Squared
Students are creating incredible pixelated drawings. Apples, cherries, leaves and hearts are appearing in squares!
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
LESSON 4: Pixels
Students are learning about PIXELS, DPI (dots per inch) and dots! we are learning about what makes up a picture on the computer and how we can create a pixelated look.
FROM THE WEB:
The images on a computer screen are composed of tiny dots called pixels (short for picture element). The computer controls each pixel individually. Most monitors have hundreds of thousands, or often millions, of pixels that are lit or dimmed to create an image.
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS masks
Students were given black construction paper cut into a skull shape. They were allowed to use tissue paper, solid sticker paper, felt and white charcoal pencils to design their personal skulls. Students took their masks to a whole new level!
Links:
DAY OF THE DEAD reading:
DAY OF THE DEAD CALAVERAS
In starting our unit on Dia de los Muertos, these are that CALAVERAS we used to color with traditional colors.
LESSON 3: SELFIE QUEEN--FRIDA
With each unit there is a famous/well known artist highlighted. For the Day of the Dead art lessons Frida fits perfectly.
And SHE is the QUEEN of the SELFIE!
FRIDA:
MOVIE LINK:
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