This Laurel Burch-inspired cat art project covers complementary colors, pattern and negative space. Tempera cakes and construction paper crayons are all you need for this project – quick, easy and neat!

Second graders learn about the complementary colors, then draw and paint a cat in the style of Laurel Burch. Laat twee 40-minuten lessen.

Meet Laurel Burch

Laurel Burch. Fotobron:

Laurel Burch was a self-taught jewelry designer and painter. She was extremely successful despite serious illness. De Laurel Burch website has every resource you could want, including a great biography video en ‘fantastic feline’ slide show. We took a close look at the cat illustrations, and noticed the simple shapes, lines and patterns.

The Complementary Colors

I displayed the color wheel and we discussed the complementary colors (see this post). The complementary colors are directly across from each other on the color wheel.

There are three complement pairs: red/green; purple/yellow; and orange/blue. When two complements are displayed together, the colors contrast and ‘pop’.

Het Art Project

Materialen:

• white sulfiet tekenpapier, 9″ x 12″ (or other white paper strong enough for painting)
• primary and secondary color tempera cakes
• borstels
• water
• examples of Laurel Burch cat illustrations
• bouw papier kleurpotloden
• facultatief: metallic crayons

Dag 1: Draw and Paint the Cat

1. Choose a complementary color pair.
2. Draw the cat using a single construction paper crayon.
3. Add eyes and other facial features, but do not add pattern or other detail.
4. Paint the inside of the cat one of the complementary colors.
5. Paint the negative space (background) in the other complementary color.
6. Laten drogen.

Dag 2: Decorate the Cat

1. Hand out examples of Laurel Burch cat illustrations and construction paper crayons.
2. Look at the patterns and other details on the cats and in the negative space (background).
3. Do a quick review of the complementary colors. Ask “What color is your cat? Find a crayon that is a complement of the cat color”.
4. Retrace the cat’s original lines with that crayon.
5. Use all the colors of construction paper crayons to color in the eyes, add designs and patterns. .
6. Facultatief: add a little sparkle with metallic crayons.

Second Grade Results:

I just love the way the complementary colors pop against each other. I also love how the opaque construction paper crayons pop atop the tempera paint!

I used tempera cakes and construction paper crayons because they were quick to set up and clean up. You could easily substitute regular tempera and oil pastels, or watercolor and regular crayons.

No matter what materials you use, this is a fun and successful project your students will really like.

Genieten van!

Ik ben net klaar een Peter Max Vrijheidsbeeld project met mijn eerste klassers. To plan this lesson, Ik nam een ​​kijkje op een veel lagere niveau Peter Max lesplannen op het internet. Al mijn onderzoek is opgenomen in de Round Up collage boven.

Hou je van deze collage? Beweeg over elk beeld en zul je een pijl zien. Click on the arrow to link directly to the lesson.

Ik heb deze afbeelding met een heet gratis website Thinglink. It allows users to make images interactive. Ik leerde over Thinglink op de Free Technology for Teachers blog.

Hier zijn nog enkele middelen die u kunt gebruiken voor uw les:

Maak kennis met Peter Max:

Wikipainting.org heeft een grote selectie van Peter Max kunstwerken, inclusief Liberty Head, psychedelische kunstwerk from the 1960s, en Warhol-achtige portretten van beroemde mensen.

Onze studenten keek Peter Max prep zijn doeken deze EXCELLENT 2008 video van CBS This Morning. (Vereist Flash. Het lezen van dit op een iPhone of iPad? Klik hier)

Onze Art Project: We ended up doing a two-day art project using tempera taarten en zwart krijt op 12″x18″ sulfiet en zijdepapier.

Dag 1:Verf achtergronden in de stijl van Peter Max. Studenten uit kleurvlekken, strepen of zelfs polka dots.

Dag 2: Gebruik zwart krijt of oliepastel in gerichte trekking van Statue of Liberty kop. ZORG ERVOOR DAT STUDENTEN VERTELLEN om terug te gaan hun lijnen, zodat ze dik en zwart.

Hier is een van onze eerste klas kunstwerken:

Genieten van!

I have always wanted to teach students how to draw and shade spheres, cubes and other forms, but I lacked confidence. Then I found two great worksheets via Pinterest that made the lesson really successful.

Any shading lesson has to begin with a discussion of value. We looked at some black and white photographs and noticed the variety of grays, from very light to almost black.

I gave each student a photocopy of a completed value scale and this handy value worksheet at About.com

The sixth graders did part one – filling in the value scale on the right of the worksheet.

Volgende, we took a close look at a real sphere (in our case, a red rubber playground ball). I turned off the overhead lights and focused a single light source on our red rubber ball. We identified highlights and cast shadows, and saw how shadows gradually got lighter further out from the object.

Now the students did part two of the worksheet – roughly shading the sphere to match their new value scales.

Next class, we looked at a variety of geometric forms.

The best thing I ever found on Pinterest may be this tutorial from Shawna Tenney at Imagine Art! I made a copy for each student.

One by one, I lit each form with a desk lamp. We looked at highlights, cast shadows, and other light and dark areas. Then we drew the forms according to the tutorial.

This drawing tutorial worksheet really helped!

Students used paper stumps to blend the graphite into a smooth gradient. They loved the stumps!

Early finishers had the option of drawing one or more of the forms using colored pencil.

Very successful! Great job sixth graders! And thanks again, Pinterest!

How do you teach value and shading?

Third grade just finished their snowmen ‘snapshots’. I found this great lesson at Mevrouw. Knight’s Smartest Artists.

Third graders drew snowmen from four different points-of-view. Allow three 40-minutes classes.

Materialen:

• schets papier
• potloden en gummen
• white construction paper, 12″x18″
• Sharpie
• viewfinders
• colored markers, thin-tip and chisel-tip

Dag 1:

We looked at all the student examples at Mrs. Knights’ Blog. Students learned some new photography vocabulary to describe point-of-view:

• zoom in/close up
• zoom out
• profile/side view
• 3/4 zien
• viewfinder
• crop

The third graders sketched their snowmen in all the points-of-view on a sheet of copy paper. Then they moved their viewfinders over the snowmen drawings to crop the picture.

Dagen 2-3:

Students folded their white construction paper into quarters. Using pencil, they drew the snowmen from four different points-of-view, one in each quarter. They went over their lines with Sharpie, then erased.

Students had to pick a unique color (or pattern) for each section. I modeled coloring with the markers, and emphasized neatness. This was a ‘no spaghetti’ (no scribbling) project. Some kids still need the reminder!

Third grade results:

This was a very successful project. I heard a couple of kids say they thought it was the best art project they ever did. Please check out Mrs. Knight’s fabulous post – her student examples are great.

We weten allemaal dat kleuters graag verjaardagsfeestjes. Taart, presenteert, decoraties – wat niet graag? So it was no surprise that this birthday cake art project was super-popular with the kinders.

Dag 1:

Kindergartens started by viewing my verjaardagstaart powerpoint (nota: als kunst-klasse wordt voor de lunch uw studenten zullen zeggen dat ze honger hebben!). We bespraken de lijnen en vormen we zagen op de taart, en in het glazuur en decoraties.

Cake tekening benadrukt lijnen en vormen.

Kinders de taarten trok met krijt. Ik benadrukte dat ze niet hebben om de grote gebieden met krijt kleuren omdat we schilderen de taarten volgende week. Echter, ze moeten krijt om kleur te gebruiken in de kleine gebieden zoals kaarsen, vlammen, ballonnen, nummers, etc..

Dag 2:

We snijden het papier verjaardagsgiften toegevoegd met lijmstift, vervolgens beschilderd met regelmatige en metalen pan aquarellen.

Kindergarteners painted their crayon drawings with regular and metallic pan watercolors. Laat twee 40-minuten durende sessies.

Voltooid verjaardagstaarten:

Dit zou een geweldig einde-van-het-jaar les aan alle 'zomer te vieren’ verjaardagen die optreden wanneer de school uit van de sessie. Dit zou ook een leuk project voor een Wayne Thiebaud les.

Wat dacht je van het toevoegen van een boek aan het project? Toen ik klein was, Dr. Seuss’ Happy Birthday to You! was one of my favorite books and I still remember reading it on my 6th birthday (Ik herinner me ook Baskin-Robbins clown kegels plopping over de achtertuin op het verjaardagsfeestje, maar dat is een ander verhaal).

Ik zou graag uw suggesties op een boek om mee te lezen met dit project.

Heeft u een speciale verjaardag-themed boek voor basisschoolleerlingen?