Designing dragons

Kindergartener Maggie

Avery and Angela

OK...NOT a dragon!  Antony finished his graphite drawing after completing his dragon.

Joseph used an online game for inspiration

Erica invented some new colors in those spikes!

Poway class

New students working on pattern and design:

Natasha

Laleinah and Lauren

Funky owls, etc.

All-Star Academy artists created their versions of funky owls, continuing the theme of pattern and design on which we've been working.  One older student worked on value and shading, drawing a horse.  Ones that finished early created colorfully patterned camels.

Jacob's owl

Carolyn

Erica

Avery

Joseph

Antony

Elements of Art: Color

From top: Rachel, Kelton, Calab, Sarah, art by Hannah W., Sarah W. and Kate.

Class started with a discussion of color and how it comes from light and pigment. We studied the color wheel, learning about primary, secondary,intermediate and complementary colors. I was determined to get some concepts into them so we went on to discuss triadic, analogous and monochromatic color harmonies and looked at examples of these in contemporary and historic paintings.

After that, we explored color mixing in a simple, yet extremely fun, activity using just primary colors. This generated a lot of excitement as the kids discovered pictures in their creations. I can't wait to see what they do with these "splotches" next week!