Today in class we did a lot of different things. After we shared our readings we were given a number of pencils and some blank paper. We were able to test out the pencils to see which ones we prefered. Alex went over the h and b pencils with us. Then we had to pick one pencil to do a figure 8 and we had to keep on going over the figure 8. We were making art music I guess. Then we had to draw the roots of a picture of a tree that was given to us. Then we had to look at the tree and draw our own tree, using the variety of pencils to help with contour lines and contrast. That we really fun and relaxing. I thought I actually did pretty good.
Next we shared our cultural artifact. I brought in my Glendinning family crest that originated in Scotland. It was neat to hear about everyone elses artifacts, where they came from and what they meant to them. Then we set them up as a display on our table and went to each other’s table to take a peak. I can definitely say that every single artifact is a piece of art. They all were made by people who are artists in their own rights. It was a neat activity.
Next we painted like crazy. First of all we had about 6 sheets each and on each one we painted something. We started with the colour wheel with the 3 primary colours, red, blue and yellow, then we mixed them to find the secondary colours, purple, orange and green. We learned that red, yellow and orange are the warm colours and blue, purple and green are considered the cold colours. We did some other painting like mixing white with a primary colour to find different shades of the colour. We also mixed black and white with a primary colour to do different hues of one primary colour. Overall it was really fun to play around with the paints and especially to make our own colours come alive. Then we got to paint our clay masterpieces and our finger puppets,. I think my clay landscape turned out pretty cool.
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Plenty of painting!
Today in class we did a lot of different things. After we shared our readings we were given a number of pencils and some blank paper. We were able to test out the pencils to see which ones we prefered. Alex went over the h and b pencils with us. Then we had to pick one pencil to do a figure 8 and we had to keep on going over the figure 8. We were making art music I guess. Then we had to draw the roots of a picture of a tree that was given to us. Then we had to look at the tree and draw our own tree, using the variety of pencils to help with contour lines and contrast. That we really fun and relaxing. I thought I actually did pretty good.
Next we shared our cultural artifact. I brought in my Glendinning family crest that originated in Scotland. It was neat to hear about everyone elses artifacts, where they came from and what they meant to them. Then we set them up as a display on our table and went to each other’s table to take a peak. I can definitely say that every single artifact is a piece of art. They all were made by people who are artists in their own rights. It was a neat activity.
Next we painted like crazy. First of all we had about 6 sheets each and on each one we painted something. We started with the colour wheel with the 3 primary colours, red, blue and yellow, then we mixed them to find the secondary colours, purple, orange and green. We learned that red, yellow and orange are the warm colours and blue, purple and green are considered the cold colours. We did some other painting like mixing white with a primary colour to find different shades of the colour. We also mixed black and white with a primary colour to do different hues of one primary colour. Overall it was really fun to play around with the paints and especially to make our own colours come alive. Then we got to paint our clay masterpieces and our finger puppets,. I think my clay landscape turned out pretty cool.
~ by rissaglendinning on February 13, 2008.
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