1st graders are finishing up their monochromatic heart paintings. This project introduces positive and negative space, mixing a tint, etching a line design, and printing a border. They also do some teeny tiny touch ups to make their final results clean and crisp.
Below you can see the line etching step. Students used a wooden stylus to gently scratch a line design into the wet paint. They painted a little then etched a little so the paint would be wet when they etched it.
After painting the negative space of one heart and the positive space of the other, students mixed a tint of their one color by mixing white into it. They learned about tints and other aspects of color with this brainpop jr video. We watched our Monochromatic Fugleflick too. We had fun playing the color matching game on our interactive board at the end of class too. Find it here.
Download the whole lesson here.
See the gallery of finished art here
This 2nd grade lesson introduces students to the artwork of Keith Haring. He made colorful painting with figures in action poses. I use this artwork to teach very basic figure drawing, complementary colors, primaries and secondary colors, action/ movement, positive/negative space, line pattern, and shape pattern. We begin by drawing poses using the help of a template students cut out and assemble by themselves. This template allows them to play with poses then trace the ones they like. Download the template.
Student Work: see gallery here
When students finished their paintings, they looked at them through 3-D glasses to see if the complementary colors made the actions poses even more vibrant.
Finished stop motion animations:
The fifth graders from 5-1 used the second graders' step up one day and made this:
Digital Extension: Create it digitally
Digital Warm Up Drawing:
Digital Extension: Make and Move
Students can use the template over a piece of construction paper and animate the figure against a complementary color background to demonstrate movement dynamically. I use the free app iMotion HD and have student make a short video. 30 images makes a 2 second video at 15 frames per second. I collect the individual videos for one class video.
Tutorial: Make it Move it Figures
Step 4. Combine the LOVE template and the emoji filled heart picture in the Superimpose app using the square size constraints, masking, and blend mode. Watch my tutorial to see how it is done.
I started combining three free apps to make one strong statement about contour line negative and positive portraits.
The Photo Grid collage app is free, clean, and full of functions. (I like that it doesn't leave a watermark on your artwork like pic collage). I played with a bunch of ways to put the negative/positive images together in the app. I thought about matching the images so they complete each other. I thought about notans and the play of light and dark as I created these.
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