1st Grade- Textured Perspective Pumpkins

After learning how pumpkins grow and where they come from, we practiced drawing them from different viewpoints.

When we look at a 3-Dimensional object, from various angles, the same object looks different depending on how you look at it. This is called perspective.

Next, we used crayons and texture rubbing plates to give these pumpkins the appearance of texture. Then, we used either cut paper or watercolor paint to make a background for our artwork. Finally, we cut out our textured pumpkins and glued them on top of the background to create a collage.

Happy Thanksgiving!

4th Grade - Straw Blown Fall Trees

We’ve created these go-with-the-flow watercolor paintings in the spirit of fall.  

We didn’t use a single paintbrush, though!  We used straws to blowwww the brown paint to make branches. Cotton swabs were used to dot on the little leaves. 

We learned about warm and cool colors.  The backgrounds of our paintings are cool and theforegrounds are warm. 

We also learned that when things are closer to us in a painting, they are larger and more detailed; this is called perspective.