Week of 11/4/2024 - UTK, Kinders and 1st grade

 UTK returned this week to create an artwork by mixing primary colors to create secondary colors inspired by the book "Mouse Paint". On a 8" x 18" piece of watercolor paper with 3 rectangles, students traced 3 circles using a template. They created a smaller circle inside it and a bigger circle outside of it. Each student was given a paper plate with the 3 primary color tempera paint. They painted the background in each of the 3 primary colors. Once done, I added yellow to blue, blue to red and red to yellow for students to mix and created the 3 secondary colors to paint in the spaces between the circles and complete the work.

Kinders created a city scape artwork after having a discussion comparing a photo of a village with a city. We had a class discussion comparing villages and cities - they noticed how the former had short houses while the latter had tall buildings. We agreed that San Diego is a City as it has too many cars, trucks, buses and is crowded and noisy!

  Students used paper rectangles, overlapped and glued them. They added details like the stars and moon in the background and windows and doors on the buildings.

1st graders created monochromatic landscapes! We looked at several examples and discussed how artists sometimes use one color and add white to create tints and black to create shades in their work instead of using different colors. We drew 4 wavy lines and a moon on a 9"X 12" piece of watercolor paper with pencil. Each student was given a small cup with a different color tempera paint. We turned our paper upside down and painted the first section in the color give. Once done, we added white to our color to create tint #1 and painted the second section and so on. We left the moon white. Students loved mixing white to their color each time. Once dry, students, used a brown crayon to add trees to complete their work.