Value art projects

The idea was to some up with a creative way of creating a scale with 11 values from black to white and everything in betwee...

Pinterest has inspired art teachers around the world and I am no exception. (Unfortunately I have no idea who originated this lesson, but ...

Content Objective . . . Students apply different shading techniques to create value in my artwork, making objects appear 3D and realistic. Language Objective . . . Students wil l describe and...

To continue our journey to discover the colors, with the year 7 classes, we painted landscapes in tempera tonal gradation. The forms that become more clear to the horizon can give a sense of distan…

We are currently starting our final projects of the year. [I can't believe it!] But for now, let me catch you up on what we just finished... 5th and 4th grade have been working on the same concepts for the past two projects. Both grades participated in a school wide Egyptian art unit by creating Egyptian sarcophagi. They reviewed SYMMETRY, and learned about hieroglyphics. After that, they learned about creating TINTS and SHADES by making an undersea painting. You can find these handouts…

These small landscapes have been painted with watercolors, by 7th-grade students after a lesson about landscape and the representation of space with value scale. Here below a video tutorial to foll…

If you're looking for an easy approach to teaching kids art, there's no better system than using the elements and principles of art. I'm talking value,

Students in all grades are revisiting color mixing. They are reviewing the color wheel and the three main color groups: primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. After mastering the color wheel,...

This project turned out better than I hoped. A few weeks ago, I had the kids paint 4 sheets of paper with dark-light versions of a color. Most people chose purple, blue or green. Those had to dry, so we picked it up a couple weeks later. This lesson involved both color value and the idea of perspective and how distant objects are usually less complex looking and lighter. The kids had to layer their painted papers from light at the top to dark at the bottom. The way they chose to cut and…