Cool and Warm color family Snowflake Watercolor Snowmen!

 

 Once again we did the cool and warm color family snowflake snowmen. We talked about the color families and then chose 2 colors from the family of our choice. Students reviewed the dos and don't of watercolor painting and how to do the wet on wet technique to get beautiful blends! After a class of them drying, we cut out our tracers of the small circle for the head, the medium for the middle, and the big one for the bottom. Then traced them onto the dry watercolor paper.

 I showed students how to fold the circle in half, then in half again for a 'pizza slice' and how to cut a few triangles out with scissors on each side. Then unfold and glue down on your paper. Beautiful! Use metallic crayon for the details like the eyes, scarf (if they chose), hat, arms and more. Then I showed students how to make a glitter scarf. I have a glitter system. I have box top trays with a small container of glitter. I tell the students to draw with glue, put your art in the tray, use the pinch and sprinkle technique to sprinkle on the glitter on the glue, and then keep inside and tap off the excess. THEN they can remove it from the tray. I also showed how to make a 'scribble scarf' so that way the scarf won't be a big gluey mess. I also mentioned to the kids by keeping the excess glitter in the box top, we can reuse the glitter and have more glitter for other projects! Yay! More glitter for us!

If students finished early, I showed them how to write a story about their snowman to take home and enjoy!

Jim Dine Cool/Warm Hearts!

Cool and Warm tone Jim Dine Hearts.

 We're studying Jim Dine and his famous heart themed art and compositions. I also thought it would be a great opportunity to incorporate our knowledge of warm and cool color families.


Jim Dine's Hearts

 First we took a long 12x18 white sheet of paper and folded it in half and then in half again to section it into 4ths. Then traced a heart into each of the 4 sections. Then pick 2 hearts to color in the heart with cool colors and the other 2 hearts will be warm colors. I show the students to color in with oil pastels and then can try smoothing with their finger and then coloring over the top again and layering colors as well. Then after the hearts are colored in use either watered down tempera (you get a smoother effect and it's already in the mixed medium for students to use) or watercolors and encourage students to choose a warm color to paint behind the warm hearts, and a cool color to paint behind the cool hearts. However, it really doesn't matter but just seems to tie it together nicely and review what colors are cool and warm.

Jim Dine's gestural coloring qualities

Jim Dine Bulletin Board