PreK- Crayon Resist Watercolor Names

In Pre-K this year, students are learning how to spell their names. What an exciting time!

So, as an extension, in Art Class, they're continuing to practice. The students started by tracing their names with crayons. After they traced their names, they experimented with color mixing by using watercolor paint to fill in the background of their artworks.

Didn't they do a beautiful job!

1st Grade: "Swimmy" Fish Prints

Before we started our multimedia artworks, we read and discussed Leo Lionni's book, "Swimmy". Check out this an animated version of the story:

In this story, the little fish worked together to outsmart the big, hungry fish. It is always a good idea to help those around us.

Lionni's illustrations inspired us to create out own underwater scenes using crayons and watercolor paint for crayon resist.

There are fish throughout the book that repeat, repeat, repeat. We created repetition too, by making styro-prints of fish as a finishing touch.

When used together, different art materials can make beautiful creations!

A.C.E. - Straw Blown Color Mixing

For this project, we learned about the primary and secondary colors in a fun way! 

 We dripped the primary color paint- red, blue, and yellow- on our papers and used straws to bloooooow the paint.  The paint ran together to make secondary colors- green, orange, and violet.

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.  

3rd Grade- Name Color Wheels

We practiced making line-shape letters and color mixing to create our own personal twist on ROY G. BIV.

We only used the three primary colors- Red, Yellow, and Blue- to create Orange, Green, Indigo, and Violet- the secondary colors.

We also learned that Black and White are not colors, but all colors and the lack of color, respectively.

Isn’t it interesting how the waxy crayons repel the watercolors?

2nd Grade- "The Dot" Color Wheel

We read “The Dot” by Peter H. Reynolds and discussed how all great artwork starts with a mark.

We learned that all we need are the three primary colors to create all the other colors of the rainbow.

If you stand back and look at our color wheels from a distance, the little dots will blend together to create the secondary colors.

Here is a link to Peter Reynold's website: http://www.peterhreynolds.com/

Check out "The Dot" and his other great books.