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Most students studied VALUE this month. Students in grades K-2 learned about tints and shades and how to mix black and white with a color to create these. Older students made value scales before creating their work, focusing on using tints and shades to describe light and shadows from life. Whether experimenting with making tints and shades or using this knowledge to replicate a still life, all students exploring value created excellent work!
Kindergarten students discovered how artists change the value of a color by adding white (to tint) or black (to shade) in an activity with tempera paint. The motivation for the art production activity was the picture book by artist Eric Carle, The Foolish Tortoise. Students identified and described the different greens used by the artist/illustrator in the turtle's shell and environment. Students mixed blue and yellow, then added white or black, to create their own palette of greens to compose their own picture of a tortoise.
First, Second, and Third graders skipped Value for now and created their projects for the Original Works school fundraiser. They studied Pablo Picasso and created unique self portraits using pen and watercolor. They learned about asymmetry in Picasso’s unusual portraits and reviewed what they already knew about color as they completed their paintings with primary and secondary colors.
Fourth grade students study the Kelp Forests of the California Pacific Coast; the art lesson integrates that study with the objective that students will create colors of differing values and intensities. After looking at the work of artist/illustrator Eric Carle, A House for Hermit Crab, and talking about his technique of creating picture book illustrations, students painted the ocean with tempera, describing the depths in a variety of cool colors, tinting and shading them with white and black. The ocean flora and fauna were drawn and painted on another piece of paper, realistically colored by varying both the valu
e and intensity by mixing colors with white, black, or the color's complement. The composition was completed by cutting and gluing flora/fauna onto the ocean background, and adding an oil pastel kelp forest.
Fifth grade students were introduced to the father of modern art, Paul Cezanne, and the art genre, still life, in a color value and intensity lesson using the art media of oil pastel. Students observed the effect of a light source on a group of three oranges and worked with values of the orange hue to create the illusion of three dimensional form in two dimensional space. The students used contour line to define the shapes of the overlapping oranges in their still life before carefully and deliberately forming the oranges with a gradation of the value scale to the point where the oranges look like they could be picked up from the flat space. Students changed the intensity of the oranges by adding small amounts of its color's complement.
Most students studied VALUE this month. Students in grades K-2 learned about tints and shades and how to mix black and white with a color to create these. Older students made value scales before creating their work, focusing on using tints and shades to describe light and shadows from life. Whether experimenting with making tints and shades or using this knowledge to replicate a still life, all students exploring value created excellent work!
Kindergarteners used blue tempera paint to create an ocean mural. To do this Ms. Carson and the students created a very large value scale by creating tints and shades of blue on large white paper. The final effect was a large mass of blue going from light to dark, emulating the depths of the ocean.
First graders used tempera and small brushes to paint outlines of umbrellas with students underneath. They moved on to medium brushes to complete painting using tints and shades of blue to create the perfect rainy day painting.
Second grade students at Monta Loma used dinosaurs for their value lesson inspiration. They outlined shapes step by step to build a dinosaur structure using yellow oil pastel. They then used green oil pastel to complete the contour drawing of their dinosaur, and to fill in their shapes. Lastly they showed a light source by creating tints of green on one side of dinosaur, made by blending white into their drawings.
Students in third grade drew a space scene by drawing out the planets. They used different colored circles of oil pastel on dark paper to represent the planets and sun, then used white and black pastel to show light and shadow side of each planet.
Fourth grade students studied value by creating drawings from a fruit still life. They drew apples and other fruits and blended together oil pastels to create tints and shades. Their fruit drawings show what an affect adding value to a drawing to give the illusion tha
t it’s three dimensions.
Students in fifth grade drew horses using both light and dark values. They started their sketch with red or pink chalk pastel. Then they decided where the light source was and added a light edge with yellow chalk pastel, and showed the shadow side with blue chalk pastel. Their finished horses show both the student’s skill in drawing the animal as well as their understanding of light and shadow.
Most students studied VALUE this month. Students in grades K-2 learned about tints and shades and how to mix black and white with a color to create these. Older students made value scales before creating their work, focusing on using tints and shades to describe light and shadows from life. Whether experimenting with making tints and shades or using this knowledge to replicate a still life, all students exploring value created excellent work!
Kindergarten students discovered how artists change the value of a color by adding white (to tint) or black (to shade) in an activity with tempera paint. The motivation for their art activity was the book Three Little Kittens. They created mittens in different values and hung them all on a clothesline for display.
First graders skipped Value for now and worked on a project for the Original Works school fundraiser. First grade created pieces in the style of Eric Carle, painting paper in bright colors and then collaging it together in a garde-themed project.
Second grade also skipped over Value momentarily, focusing on a project for an upcoming show at Mountian View City Hall. They used contour lines in marker to create Beatrix Potter characters. Their Peter Rabbit-themed drawings were then filled in with watercolors and framed in a border lined with celery and carrots.
3rd grade students at Landels used oil pastels to depict a night scene. They looked at the way that Vincent Van Gogh created his famous painting, "The Starry Night." Students then used value to show how the light moves out from a star and line to show the movement of star light.
Students in the 4th grade studied Wassily Kandinksy's "Circles in Squares" painting. They noticed how value creates variety in an abstract painting. They then painted their own circles in squares using light and dark values of watercolors.
Fifth graders noticed that artists often have themes in their artworks. For French artist Henri Matisse, a common theme was the contrast of inside and outside. Students pointed out that this theme allows the artist to contrast nature with human-made objects as well as light with dark. Fifth graders then used oil pastels to show an inside-outside contrast in their own classroom.
Most students studied VALUE this month. Students in grades K-2 learned about tints and shades and how to mix black and white with a color to create these. Older students made value scales before creating their work, focusing on using tints and shades to describe light and shadows from life. Whether experimenting with making tints and shades or using this knowledge to replicate a still life, all students exploring value created excellent work!
Kindergarten used tints and shades to create loving heart paintings. They were able to mix colors and show how many different values they can get by just adding black or white to one color.
First graders at Theuerkauf painted lovely pine branches using tints and shades of green. By looking at a pine branch they were able to see how all of the needles are slightly different in value. By adding black and white to their green paint, they were able to make paintings that perfectly mimicked this.
Second graders used value to show the light and shadows on a hands. They used the earth as their inspiration and created “Healing Hands” that can save the Earth.
In the third grade students looked at Van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night. They mixed white and black with blue to create beautiful and bright stars in a nighttime sky.
Fourth grade students learned about the red planet, Mars. They then created their own image of what the landscape on Mars may look like. They blended red, black, and white oil pastels to create mountains, craters, and crevasses using tints and shades.
Fifth graders looked at images of fish and created their own finned friends using what they learned about value. Their works show the shimmering light and dark that underwater creatures take on.
Most students studied VALUE this month. Students in grades K-2 learned about tints and shades and how to mix black and white with a color to create these. Older students made value scales before creating their work, focusing on using tints and shades to describe light and shadows from life. Whether experimenting with making tints and shades or using this knowledge to replicate a still life, all students exploring value created excellent work!
First and Second graders skipped Value for now and jumped right to Ceramics. The children created many different animals out of clay and then glazed them. Miss Paulina has been very impressed with the beautiful unicorns, bears, fish, and turtles, just to name a few. As the children wrap up their ceramics, they can look forward to studying contour and multicultural art.
Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting, Starry Night, inspired value study for third grade students in rooms 6, 7 and 8. Students mixed and painted consecutive rings of light using tints and then shades to create the effect of stars shining in a nighttime sky. Students completed their compositions by cutting and pasting a paper skyline beneath their starry skies. Third graders from rooms 5 and 9 learned about the red planet, Mars. They then created their own image of what the landscape on Mars may look like. They blended red, black, and white oil pastels to create mountains, craters, and crevasses using tints and shades.
Victorian houses were drawn to look eerily abandoned or perhaps even haunted by fourth grade students in room 14. Using a blue oil pastel plus white and black, students crafted drawings in high contrast blending the oil pastels to create spooky tints and shades. Fourth graders in room 15 illustrated images of dogs and their shadows. They sketched out their pups and then used their knowledge of light and shadow to add tints and shades. Students were encouraged to think creatively and many made their pooch of a different color by choosing reds, blues, and even greens!
Fifth graders learned about the heroic act of Paul Revere’s midnight ride and then drew images from the corresponding book, Paul Revere’s Ride illustrated by Ted Rand. The images drawn of Paul Revere on his horse used both tints and shades to create an interesting nighttime atmosphere.
Most students studied VALUE this month. Students in grades K-2 learned about tints and shades and how to mix black and white with a color to create these. Older students made value scales before creating their work, focusing on using tints and shades to describe light and shadows from life. Whether experimenting with making tints and shades or using this knowledge to replicate a still life, all students exploring value created excellent work!
Kindergarten through second grade students painted jack o’ lanterns to explore tinting and shading color. After drawing the simple outlines of two pumpkins with oil pastel, students set to work mixing and painting progressively darker shades for the body sections of their pumpkins. Tinting was used in the eye, nose and mouth shapes of each composition to give the illusion of light glowing from within.
Victorian houses were drawn to look eerily abandoned or perhaps even haunted by third and fourth grade students. Using a blue oil pastel plus white and black, students crafted drawings in high contrast blending the oil pastels to create spooky tints and shades indicating light and shadow.
Fourth and fifth graders learned of Paul Revere’s midnight ride and then drew images of a horse and rider. The images drawn of Paul Revere on his horse used both tints and shades to indicate a light source and create an interesting nighttime atmosphere.
Most students studied VALUE this month. Students in grades K-2 learned about tints and shades and how to mix black and white with a color to create these. Older students made value scales before creating their work, focusing on using tints and shades to describe light and shadows from life. Whether experimenting with making tints and shades or using this knowledge to replicate a still life, all students exploring value created excellent work!
The forecast is snowy in Kindergarten! We have been busy learning about the value of colors- from the lightest (almost white) values to the very darkest values that almost appear to be black! We are painting snowflakes, drawing snowflakes and learning about snowflakes- it's a blizzard of art excitement.
1st grade created amazing African inspired masks as they learned about value. We experimented changing the values of a limited palette of oil pastels; gray, brown, black, and orange by blending each color with white and black. These soon to be second graders put their best effort forth by working carefully and thoroughly to finish these amazing masks.
2nd grade put their observational skills to work to complete their value lesson. We carefully observed the contours and values of the leaves of a beautiful poinsettia. We noticed dark hues of red and green to the lightest pinks and brightest light greens. We added these varied values to our drawings with watercolor paint. The results were noteworthy! In fact, a few of our paintings were chosen for the City Hall Art Show, the theme this year; Observer's Notebook. Their artwork is proof that Huff second graders are outstanding observers!
Huff third graders from learned about the red planet, Mars. They then created their own image of what the landscape on Mars may look like. They mixed red, white, and black paint to create mountains, craters, and crevasses using tints and shades.
This value project is an apple for the eye! To begin, Fourth graders took turns shining flashlights on apples, noticing the effects of a direct light source on a form. Using oil pastels, they practiced adding highlights, shadows and cast shadows to add dimension to the drawing. The results of this project were indeed a treat for the teacher!
The Fifth grade value project was inspired by the famous poem; The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. We carefully drew a moonlit midnight scene from the tale and using oil pastels (and our knowledge of values) transformed the drawings into illuminated works of art.