Silhouettes, tints, hues and shades

6th and 7th grade girls defined their silhouettes with paint and words describing them. First girls described themselves using a bubble map. Next they looked up synonyms for their describing words. They then wrote their describing words in decorative text. Lastly, they painted their silhouettes using tints and shades of colors they they mixed themselves.

Foreshortening Portraits

7th graders created self portraits---some unordinary self portraits. They used a skill called foreshortening-- the idea that somethings looks different based on the angle viewed. These portraits give the appearance of arms and legs out in front of students--like falling. Students liked the look of this new skill.

Tint, Shade, Hue

4th graders learned about tints, hues and shades. A hue is a pure color, a tint is a hue mixed with white and a shade is a hue mixed with black. 4th graders mixed all the colors themselves and had to balance how much black and white to mix to create a range of colors. The results are gorgeous

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Watercolor Animals

8th graders chose animals they were inspired by and used a transfer method to trace the animals to watercolor paper. Then they used a method called wet on wet to paint. (This means they used wet paper and wet brushes to make the paint spread around). The results are awesome'