Students are learning the colors of the rainbow, which is nature's tool to help us with remembering the color wheel and how to mix colors. We are practicing painting the colors of the rainbow in order with the following projects.
Rainbow Line Collage - Grade K
Essential Question: What types of lines are used in art?
To make our paper collage, we started by painting stripes of ROY G. BIV. Then we drew different types of lines on the back of the paper. Piece by piece each line was cut apart and glued back together like a puzzle on a black background paper. We made sure to leave a finger space to show what types of line that we made in between each piece.
Rainbow Line Collage - Grade K
Essential Question: What types of lines are used in art?
To make our paper collage, we started by painting stripes of ROY G. BIV. Then we drew different types of lines on the back of the paper. Piece by piece each line was cut apart and glued back together like a puzzle on a black background paper. We made sure to leave a finger space to show what types of line that we made in between each piece.
ROY G. BIV Birds - Grade 1
Essential Question: What inspires artists artwork?
To create these cartoon like characters, artists frequently have to study subjects from real life. These birds are no different. Where do artists get their ideas? Sometimes things are from real life and some things come from our imagination. We compared and contrasted the inspiration and photographs of real birds noticing how different features are combined to create artworks. One such example for discussion was Angry Birds. The popular characters are imagined but artist are inspired by real birds and emphasize and choose what parts of the birds they like best to create these funny characters with human traits. Our depiction shows the birds on a telephone wire and the birds had to be painted with watercolors in ROY G. BIV color order. Indigo, not such a common color was made by mixing blue & purple.