Friday, 8 March 2013

TINTS AND SHADES - ICE CREAM

Here you have the ice cream made of tints and shades. This is the result of the previous lesson where students painted a paper with tints and shades (see the post TINTS AND SHADES).

6th - red group

6th - blue group

6th green group

green group - diapositivas


You're ARTISTS!


Alba

Monday, 4 March 2013

CITY SKYLINE

There are a lot of types of landscapes: coast, mountains, river, lake, desert, town, cities...

In the last lesson of Art, 5th grade students drew a city skyline. To do this activity they followed some steps:

- Fold the paper
- Draw a city skyline on one half of the paper
- Trace it with wax crayons
- Fold the paper again and press (this action transfers the city skyline on the other half of the paper)
- Colour the landscape using ready-mixed paint mixed with water. Add extra water when colouring the reflection.




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TINTS AND SHADES

We can create tints mixing a colour with white colour.



We can create shades mixing a colour with black colour.



6th grade students coloured 6 sections of a paper with three tints and three shades. The 7th section was coloured with brown colour.



Next day, they will cut and glue the papers in the correct order and the brown section will be the cone of the ice cream. I will upload pictures, I promise!



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WINTER TREES

Last week, 5th grade students did another activity based on lanscapes.

They had to colour a winter lanscape using ready-mixed paint mixed with water (to make it watery).
 Then, they had to "draw" the trees using a straw and brown watery ready-mixed paint. They had to blow and "make" the trees. Look at the pictures:




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GUSTAV KLIMT FORESTS

Two weeks ago, 5th grade students started working on a new unit: LANDSCAPES. To start the unit, they did an activity based on Gustav Klimt forests.

To do this activity they followed some steps:

- They put sticky tape on the paper to make the trees.

 - They coloured the sky and the ground using different colour combinations (spring forest, summer forest, autumn forest...)

- They took out the sticky tape.



- They coloured the trees using grey, brown or ocre.


 And the result is...THIS!






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COLOUR WHEEL AND SHAPES

Two weeks ago, 6th grade students did an activity based on the colour wheel. They had to draw a shape 10 times and colour each one with a different colour. After this, they had to glue the shapes in the correct colour order.

The result is amazing! They did a great job.

This is the model I showed to them:

 

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Sunday, 3 March 2013

COLOUR WHEEL

This activity is based on the colour wheel. We used ready-mixed paint to colour it and the result was amazing!



Students had to colour each section of the paper using a colour from the colour wheel. The important thing was that they had to colour the sections following the correct order!


 

COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS (again!)

Yesterday, 6th grade students did their second activity about complementary colours. Here you have an example:


They had to choose a shape to draw on each space and then, they had to colour (with ready-mixed paint or wax crayons) three of them using the following combinations:

blue and  orange
yellow and violet
red and green

Students were able to choose the fourth  combination. They did an amazing work! :)








Here you have some pictures of the process:

 

COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS

Last week, 6th grade students learnt about complementary colours.



The main complementary colours are:

blue and orange

green and red

yellow and violet (purple!)


Students also did this activity based on complementary colours and lines:


(As soon as I can I will update this post with some examples made by my students)



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WOLF KAHN - UNREALISTIC FORESTS

Wolf Kahn is a German painter who uses oils and pastels to create unrealistic coloured forests.



Using ready-mixed paint mixed with water and wax crayons 5th grade students did this:










They are ARTISTS!

Fast finishers had the opportunity to practise other techniques and create free style artworks:





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PIET MONDRIAN - PRIMARY COLOURS

At the beginning of unit 2, 6th grade students learnt about Piet Mondrian and his artworks.
Piet Mondrian, a dutch painter, used primary colours, white background and black lines in his compositions.






 Piet Mondrian artwork in MoMA museum in New York City

6th students did not finish their compositions inspired in Piet Mondrian. I will upload the pictures as soon as they finish!



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WARM AND COOL COLOURS

Last week we learnt the difference between warm and cool colours and how to classify them.





We also did the following activity based on warm and cool colours:



Did you like the activity?



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MIXING PRIMARY COLOURS

As you all know primary colours are blue, red and yellow. What happens if you mix them?

Blue and yellow is green.

Red and blue is violet.

Red and yellow is orange.

Last week we did an activity about mixing primary colours to get secondary colours. Students mixed some paint and then, they coloured some circles. look at the pictures:



There is a common are between the circles that is coloured with a secondary colour, 
according to the colours of the two other circles.


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UNIT 2 - COLOUR THEORY

This term is about COLOURS and its classification and characteristics. To start the unit we did a little review of different colours (blue, green, red, yellow…). Then, we learned about primary and secondary colours.



Primary colours are BLUE, RED and YELLOW.

Secondary colours are ORANGE, GREEN and VIOLET.

 To have some fun in class we also did the following experiment with water and colouring. We mixed primary colours in order to get secondary colours. Look at the result!

 Primary colours

Secondary colours

Red and blue is violet

 Yellow and red is orange

 Yellow and blue is green


And here you have a presentation with some other pictures:

UNIT 1 - HUMAN FIGURE

In 1st term, 6th grade students learned about human figure. They also reviewed concepts such as proportions and symmetry. We did a lot of interesting activities, look at the pictures.


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UNIT 1 - PORTRAITS

In 1st term, 5th grade students learned about portraits, proportions and symmetry. We did a lot of activities, look at the pictures:



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HELLO!

Hello everybody!

In this blog you will find pictures and all the activities that we have done in class since September. I hope you like it!


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