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Showing posts with label color. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color. Show all posts

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Shooting Stars...



                                          This week I cut up some old painting placemats...


                            I cut several of the strips into rectangles that I then cut into stars...


My Kindergarten students are learning about line this week...


        Each child chose a start shape from the pile at their table and glued them onto their paper...


      We spent some time as a group looking at, talking about and practicing some different types of               lines...


I love how each one is so different and each picture is loaded with information about the creative and mental growth of the kids...



Next week the kids will be adding the colors of the rainbow ( color wheel ) using watercolors! I can't wait to see how they turn out! So excited!!!

Mrs."C"  :)

*** Oh yeah.... I finally figured out to add the link to my Instagram page (lol) it only took me forever to figure it out! Technology genius I am not...  the link is at the top of my page on the right...  :)  ***



Saturday, September 7, 2013

Color......

designseeds.com

Students and adults will always say to me: "How did you know to put those colors together?" or "I would never had thought to put those colors together but they are perfect for each other!  How did you know?"  

Honestly, silently in my head I'm thinking, "I just do..."  (but I don't say that out loud).  This is where I throw in some color theory lessons!  I know how to look at colors and pull together hues, values, color families, etc...  Others may not.  I always refer back to the color wheel in class with the kids and talk about the many different ways they can choose colors to go with each other.

I found this wonderful site, Design Seeds.  They take a photo and then proceed to pull out all the colors in the photo and line them up so you can see their beauty together!  It is one of my new favorite sites to visit!  I will certainly be referring to this site for images when I am doing color theory this year!  I like the idea of showing the kids an image and having them be color detectives to pull the different colors out of the image.  We could then look at them together and I could have the kids figure out what relationship the colors have with each other (primary, warm/cool, complimentary, etc...)  OHHH!!  I just had a great idea for a color game as I'm writing this! :)

So check out the site and enjoy the colors!  Have a great weekend!  I have a ton of work to do for school but I'm going to try to squeeze some me time in there also!  Looks like it's going to be a beautiful sunny day!  The weather is a crisp high 50's this morning!  I love it!
 
                                                           Mrs.C  :)

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Positive/Negative Designs with a Twist - 4th Grade




One week of school down after a week off for Spring break...  My Fourth Grades started some Positive/Negative designs before vacation.  I was inspired by the beautiful designs from Art with Mr.Hall.  Tuesday I took a look at them and thought they need something else... 






I decided to have them add some color and design to them.  I had the kids pick three colors of their choice.  Each negative space was to be designed using any combination of the three colors, line and shape. 



Detail close-up of student work


The students thought the original design was interesting but they really thought they were cool after they added their details to them!






Thanks again to Mr. Hall for the inspiration!  Enjoy the rest of the pieces!