Color Gallery

We recently finished our last color unit project. Students were challenged in the last week to write a  content goal as a class about what they were learning through the project. Even the youngest grades excelled through this! You can watch a small video clip at the bottom of this blog of students leading other students through this. 

Scroll to see finished works with some reflections written by the students themselves. 

To read more about the concepts students were exploring, visit my last blog here.

Fourth grade student, Mrs. Spurlock's class
"The lady is talking to the love of her life. She is at home and they are planning their wedding. She is just sitting at home. My strength in my painting is the drawing part because I am a really good drawer. My weakness in my painting is the painting part, because I accidentally mixed colors."

5th Grade student, Mrs. Strange/Favorite's class

4th Grade student in Mrs. How's class
"The lady is getting a haircut and she is wondering if it looks good or bad. The scissors are making a snipping sound and the lady's hair is on her shirt, but she can't see what her actual hair looks like. I could improve my work by putting the dots closer together in the girl's head and trying to stay in the lines."

Student in Mrs. Worthy's 4th grade class
"My painting is about a man getting prank calls from someone, that only says "Banana!" I am good at painting and drawing phones. I could improve on the man and the door, and probably the background."

Student in Mrs. Worthy's 4th grade class
"The first guy says, 'Dude, dogs and cats were never friends,' and the second guy says, 'See for yourself!' The dog and cat are actually friends. The, the guy says, 'That's ironic!' In my comic, I'm good at drawing Pikachu- see!"

4th grade student in Mrs. Spurlock's Class
"In my narrative they all meet up at Steak and Shake to eat, and the fries say, 'Hi', the shake says, 'What's shaken bacon,' he says, 'Nothin' much,' and the burger says, 'Hey I'm down here!' My strengths are thinking of an idea. I can improve my drawing by having lessons."

4th Grade student in Mrs. Worthy's class

5th Grade student in Mr. Scalf's class

4th Grade student in Mrs. Hampson's class

1st grade student, Mrs. Reed's class

3rd Grade student from Mrs. Coffman's class

1st grade student from Miss. Peter's class

3rd Grade student from Mrs. Risley's class

Worker Bees

The last few weeks, our students have been working hard on their projects. 

First, second and third grade has been working on their cats inspired by American Artist Laurel Burch, using warm and cool colors. I challenge you to ask your students at home what these warm and cool colors are! They have been exceeding my expectations with their knowledge each week. Some classes painted their cats using cool shapes and warm skin, some painted warm shapes and cool skin. 
Next week, we will be finishing these by adding a background.

Student work from Mrs. Sandy's 2nd grade class

Student work from Mrs. Sandy's 2nd grade class

Student work from Mrs. Sandy's 2nd grade class

 

Fourth and fifth grade has been working on their comic squares inspired by modern artist Roy Lichtenstein. They are outlining and starting to paint mainly using the three primary colors as Lichtenstein did. Each comic is required to have a narrative, or a series of events happening within their picture, using text.
Lichtenstein used tiny painted dots for his characters' skin, so we are using tiny dots for our skin as well. 

They could use a thought bubble, word bubble, or sound bubble. We talked about onomatopoeias, and how they can be used for the sound bubbles with words like "BANG", "SIZZLE", or "OINK". 

Next week, we will continue painting our comic squares.  

Student work from Mrs. Strange's 4th grade class

Student work from Mrs. Hampson's 4th grade class

Student work from Mrs. Strange's 4th grade class

Selfies

Student work from Mrs. Dellett's class, 2nd grade

Students love drawing self portraits, because they have an opportunity to visually respond to who they uniquely are, who they want to become, and how they excel as an individual. 
This week, each grade took the self portrait they drew on the first week of school in art, outlined it in sharpie, and painted it. 

Student work from Mrs. Price's Class, 5th grade

Students will be able to look back at their portraits at the end of the year, or even years down the road, and see how they've grown and progressed. 
We learned more about color mixing, how to control our lines, and a bit about ourselves in this process. I have enjoyed talking to the students about their paintings, and the details they chose to include about themselves.  

Student working in Mrs. Butler's  class

Artwork by 5th grader in Ms. Favorite/Strange's class

Student mixes a skintone color

Artwork by 1st grader in Mrs. Schuster's class

Artwork by 1st grade artist in Mrs. Nelson's class

Artwork by 3rd grade artist in Mrs. Coffman's class

2nd grade Student from Mrs. Sandy's Class working

Artwork of 4th grade student from Mrs. Hampson's class

Lichtenstein and Fishy Business

This week, we continued on into our COLOR unit.



Our first, second, and third graders did a literacy-based art project using their color mixing experiments from last week to create a group collage. We first listened to The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. 






The Rainbow Fish is a story about a colorful fish who learns to share his sparkly, colorful scales with friends.
 Each class cut out their color mixing project "scales" and glued them to their class fish.

 

We then named the fish by taking three suggested names from the students and using the key sounds from each name and combining them together. We came up with some pretty funny names like "Miss. Fahootie", "Bulpy", and "Gleautty".  

"Girl in the Mirror", Roy Lichtenstein. 

Fourth and fifth grade started their color project by looking at the artwork of Roy Lichtenstein. He is inspired by comic strips and produced hard-edged, precise compositions of black, red, blue, and yellow hues. Our fourth and fifth graders will be working with the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) and text to create their own comic squares. This week they sketched and used brainstorming strategies (who, what, where, text/what is being said?) They are looking forward to doing a painting project that is inspired by comics.

The word of the week was RESPONSIBILITY. So, we practiced responsible scissor handling. Below is a video!

1st though 3rd completed rainbow fish

COLOR
This unit, we are learning about color.

First through third grade has been exploring how to mix the secondary colors, and how the primary colors cannot be made by mixing other colors together. 

Fourth and Fifth grades have learned that complementary colors are across from each other on the color wheel and when mixed, create a brownish-grey color. 

Third grade learned that tertiary colors are made by mixing either one primary color with one secondary color, or two secondary colors.  

All grades have been learning the difference between warm and cool colors. We have also been talking about ways color is used to communicate emotion and symbolic use. 


Below is a picture of an activity our first through third graders did mixing the primary paint colors onto paper under saran wrap. They were encouraged to try and mix all three secondary colors. It was hands-on fun for all!