Spring Flowers!

This week students used all kinds of art supplies to create a vase of flowers! After lots of discussion about shapes and sizes of vases and flowers, students started with an oil pastel to create a vase. Next, they placed big dots of green paint at the bottom of the vase and used a straw to blow the paint up toward the top! After they had as many stems and they wanted, they used paper scraps to create the flower blooms!
Fun project! A lot of steps for the first week back from Spring break but everyone was on board for the challenge!

Hydrangea Blooms!

This week we discussed pointillism and looked at some work of Seurat's. We took a close up look at the dots in his paintings and discussed complimentary colors. Using the color wheel, students could see that complimentary colors are directly across from each other. Before students started painting with their finger instead of a brush, we looked at images of hydrangea blooms for inspiration! Next, student's chose two colors that complimented each other and painted dots with their fingers creating hydrangea blooms!