Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Sailboat Pictures (Summer 2015)

Today we talked about foreground, mid-ground and background.  We talked about perspective and how the larger boats will be in the front and the smaller boats will be in the back.  We also talked about colors and the farther away something is, the darker it will appear.  We used a lot of different art mediums today.  We used watercolor for the sky, tempura paint for the water and we sponged acrylic paint for the sand.  I think the sailboat pictures look awesome!  Way to go artists!






























Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Parrot Pictures

This was one of my most ambitious projects because the students had to draw and paint their own parrot - and the youngest was five.  I have to say that I was ecstatic to see how beautiful the paintings turned out and even the young ones could do it.  I am teaching a class of talented artists.  :)  We also looked at pictures of different parrots and we discussed interested facts about them. 
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