Blendoku: Online Color Mixing Game

Click here to play BLENDOKU, an online color mixing game. This game also functions even better as an app. Test your color identification and mixing skills with this challenging game!

Value Landscapes

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#monochromatic #landscapes to show color value by #gradesfiveandsix at @waitsfieldschool #elementaryart

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"Selfie" Self Portraits

Fifth and sixth grade artists use an iPad to take a "selfie," then traced it with Sharpie on acetate.  Then they painted on the plastic with acrylic paint in non-realistic "pop-art" colors. They used colored paper for the background.

Collages inspired by Alma Woodsey Thomas

"Through color, I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness..."
Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891-1978)

Click here to learn more about Alma Thomas.

Monochromatic Self Portraits

"Mono" = One   "Chromatic" = Color

Color wheels, Paint strips and Color Matching

Third and fourth graders learned all about the Color Wheel, color mixing and color matching.  They had three challenges to complete as part of this unit:

1. Paint all 12 colors of the color wheel and create your own color wheel

2. Find a photo in a magazine and match several of the colors in the image (inspired by this very cool website, Design Seeds)

3. Create a paint strip with different tints or shades of the same color and name each of the hues

Rainbow Week Color Wheel Collage

It is Rainbow Week at Waitsfield School! Each day the school lunch is centered around a different color of the rainbow and all of the students wear that color. (Today was green day!)  Kindergarten artists worked collaboratively to make a Color Wheel Collage by finding examples of each color in magazines.  They had a little help from some first and second graders to finish the collage.

Rex Ray Collage

Rex Ray is a contemporary collage artist from San Francisco.  He started working as a graphic designer, but expanded to collage when he felt he needed to infuse more creativity and freedom into his work.  

There are many connections between Rex Ray's work and Henri Matisse's Collages.  What similarities and differences do you notice between their work? Click here to see more artwork we've done that was inspired by Matisse!

Third and fourth grade artists looked at Rex Ray's work as inspiration for their own collages. We identified four elements that we noticed in many of Rex Ray's pieces. They are:

1. Warm and Cool Colors

2. Texture

3. Organic Shapes

4. Layering, Unity and Composition

We started by painting warm and cool colored papers and collecting textured images from magazines.  Then students used Rex Ray's art to inspire an Organic Shape Doodle.

Collecting #shapes and #doodles inspired by #rexray for our #collages by #gradesthreeandfour #Waitsfieldschool

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Then students created their own collages based on Rex Ray's work. Here are some examples of Rex Ray's Collages:

 

Here's a picture of collage-making in-progress.  When we do collage, I try to remember to "Embrace the Chaos!"

#collage inspired by #rexray #inprogress #gradesthreeandfour #Waitsfieldschool

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Here are our finished collages! After students photographed their collages, they painted a layer of acrylic gel medium over their work.