Grade Four
Students created their own 12-color wheel in order to better understand the basics of color theory. First they mixed their own secondary and tertiary colors onto strips. The color wheel is a tool that students use a lot in art class and they can be referred to on the cover of each child’s sketchbook.
At the start of our drawing unit, we have been exploring different media and drawing techniques. Students have learned how to show form, reflection and shadows on spheres. They practiced with drawing pencils making values from black to white. Cross-hatching, stippling, layering colored pencils, and showing texture with oil pastels are some of the other ways the students explored drawing tools.
Grade Four students drew several upside-down drawings to encourage looking at lines in relation to one another. Only when the drawing was finished, could they turn the picture around to see how well they drew!
We have started a large orchid art project. Techniques covered will be contour drawing, watercolor washes, wet-on-wet painting, and painting reflection and shadows.
