Third Grade

Fall Tree Sculptures

Cool vs. Warm Color Fall Leaves

Native American Weavings

Color Wheel Flower

Using watercolor paint students learned about the color wheel and how to use primary colors to create secondary colors. Also they learned how to create brown using a technique called complimentary colors.

Overlapping Hearts

Third grade has learned numerous ways to show depth in their artwork. In this latest lesson they are using the concept of overlapping. Each heart has color emanating from them and begins to slowly overlap as they get closer to one another.

 

 

Falling for Art

Third grade explores the idea of perspective through the foreshortening. Foreshortening is the concept that distance can be shown by enlarging or shrinking parts of an artwork. The smaller it is the further it is from the viewer; while the larger it is the closer it is to the viewer. Students added in personal details to the clothing and hair to their liking. In addition, the class learned how to create a surprised look on their person’s face.

 

Winter Cardinal

The third grade class learned about one of Michigan’s winter birds the cardinal. After watching a short video about them the class was lead in a directed drawing of a cardinal from a front and profile view. Parts of the project were filled in with crayon and watercolor. In order to make snowflakes students used a crayon resist technique using white crayon and watercolor together. Afterwards, white tempera was applied using q-tips to add addition snow falling on the branch and background.

Sun and Moon

Third grade explored the differences between warm and cool colors while integrating patterns into their drawings. Students learned to associate warm and cool colors as opposites just like the moon and sun. In addition,students learned how quality craftsmanship with markers is applied to artwork.