5th grade Rotational
Symmetry Design
Students in 5th grade started their first project with a complex drawing design. Students created a design using reflective symmetry on a small square. Once drawn, they repeated the design onto three more squares. Once completed, they glued the design together reflecting each square against the square next to it, rotating the design around the paper to create one large design. To add color, students used warm and cool colors. We talked about how using different pressures would allow them to have darker and lighter areas of color- called values of color in art.
5th grade Value Landscapes
5th grade students will be painting a mountain landscape learning different techniques to create new values of color. We learn new vocabulary terms and their application through this process, such as: tint, shade, complimentary colors, depth, and atmospheric perspective.
Students were challenged to create their own digital version of this project in the "paint" program on the computer. If students are able, they can create the 'painting' at home and email it Mrs. Ferguson. Directions are below.
Students were challenged to create their own digital version of this project in the "paint" program on the computer. If students are able, they can create the 'painting' at home and email it Mrs. Ferguson. Directions are below.
Creating Your Own 'Painting' on the computer
Gallery images below walk you through the steps of the process!
1. Open the Paint program on your computer.
2. Use the "brush" tool to draw 5-6 black lines across the paper that are your "mountains" in your landscape. *Make sure your lines reach to the very edges of your space left to right or the colors might go into more than one space on the next set of steps.
3. Go to the "edit colors" tab to select either a dark blue or darker orange (you can slide the right arrow up and down to make the color lighter and darker). Click "add to custom colors" to select your darkest value.
4. Switch from 'brush' to the little paint bucket. This will fill whole sections of color at a time. Choose your darkest color value and click on the bottom space of the picture. It should fill with the darkest value.
5. Go back to your 'edit colors' and slide the arrow on the right up to create the next lighter value. Fill the next space above with this value. Repeat this until you've reached your last mountain line. Adjust colors as needed to get a gradual shift from your darkest value to your lightest.
6. Last, choose the complimentary color for your sky- so your sky would be orange if you made the mountains blue; if your mountains were orange, then your sky would be blue!
*Have fun? Try this with some other complimentary colors! Here's a list of compliments!
Red and Green
Yellow and Violet
Yellow-green and red-violet
blue-green and red-orange
blue-violet and yellow-orange
8. Email me your image in the link below leaving your name and grade/day in the subject line.
2. Use the "brush" tool to draw 5-6 black lines across the paper that are your "mountains" in your landscape. *Make sure your lines reach to the very edges of your space left to right or the colors might go into more than one space on the next set of steps.
3. Go to the "edit colors" tab to select either a dark blue or darker orange (you can slide the right arrow up and down to make the color lighter and darker). Click "add to custom colors" to select your darkest value.
4. Switch from 'brush' to the little paint bucket. This will fill whole sections of color at a time. Choose your darkest color value and click on the bottom space of the picture. It should fill with the darkest value.
5. Go back to your 'edit colors' and slide the arrow on the right up to create the next lighter value. Fill the next space above with this value. Repeat this until you've reached your last mountain line. Adjust colors as needed to get a gradual shift from your darkest value to your lightest.
6. Last, choose the complimentary color for your sky- so your sky would be orange if you made the mountains blue; if your mountains were orange, then your sky would be blue!
*Have fun? Try this with some other complimentary colors! Here's a list of compliments!
Red and Green
Yellow and Violet
Yellow-green and red-violet
blue-green and red-orange
blue-violet and yellow-orange
8. Email me your image in the link below leaving your name and grade/day in the subject line.
Value Landscapes- Painted!
After we studied how to create the computer version, students painted their own mountain landscape using tempera paint and collage. First students painted either a daytime sky or sunset. We looked at photographs and paintings of mountain ranges. Students looked at how the atmosphere causes the color of the mountains to fade as they go back into the distance- atmospheric perspective. They cut out six papers for their mountains. Then the students mixed different values of their mountain colors using white to make the color lighter. Students painted each mountain paper with a different value. Last, students glued the mountains to the sky background starting with the lightest mountain value in the back.
Starry Night pastels
Students looked at the art work of Vincent van Gogh and learned a little bit about this tragic artist's life. Students formed the landscape with a blending of chalk pastels. Students were encouraged to use analogous, or adjacent colors on the color wheel, to form each layer of the landscape. Then students drew spiral lines over their splattered stars to create the iconic glowing stars and wind to their own version of a Starry Night. Students softly blended the spiral lines, then they added shining stars over top to complete the art work.
Clay Monsters
5th grade created some interesting little monsters using clay slabs this year. Each student created a cup form from a clay slab. They then added their own details to make the creature unique. We finished the projects using watercolors. My hands were too messy for many pictures...sorry!
Surrealism in Art
Students started off the project learning a little bit about the history of Surrealism. They then created a drawing from their hand. Each finger had to have a new texture drawn on it. From that point on, each student went wherever their imagination led. 5th grade has some talent!