Snow Globes

Yahoo! The snow is finally here!
This week we continued our discussion of complimentary colors. We took an up close look at Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte to see how he used complimentary colors to enhance his paintings. Many students thought this scene looked similar to Lake Harriet. Next students drew a snow globe, cut it out and then created a family portrait. Using complimentary colors students decorated the base by creating a pattern. We added a bit of sparkle with glitter glue to enhance the snow falling in their pictures! They took so much time in carefully drawing each family member, sometimes including pets, it was marvelous to hear the stories they told as they described them to me.

The upper level also worked on cutting snowflakes for the hallway. There is something magical that happens after you make the cuts and then open it up to see what you have created. One student just kept folding and opening and refolding in awe over what he made. It was fun to watch. Another student in the upper level was so inspired by our complimentary color conversation he carried it over to the snowflake production. See the picture below. He paired yellow and purple together, blue and orange, and lastly red and green.