Spring Trees on Wood

Spring Trees on Wood
Collage "Kandinsky Style"

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Kindinsky's Concentric Circles

We used crayon and watercolor to create our new sketchbook covers.


Our lesson focusd on Color.  Ask your child what complementray colors are!

Monday, January 16, 2012

How to Draw: Observing the Pieces that Make up the Whole



We talked about Shape. Observing how shapes make the pieces - that make the whole.
Students picked a picture to study, visually "piece apart", and draw.
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Most decided to add outline and color.  We mounted them on to poster board.  It was so quite in the room - hard to believe there were 17 kids!
Even the youngest students got into this. Gladly, I didn't sense any frustration.