Saturday, September 15, 2012

Dots, Dots and More Dots!!

You may remember that I mentioned International Dot Day (which is today!!) in this post here. Well, 4th graders finished their patterned dots this week.

They are now posted in two hallways and in the Art Room.

The task for these students, using a color wheel for reference, was to paint their concentric circles in pairs of complementary colors with black and white line design circles separating the colors. This was an opportunity to revisit the color wheel, design line motifs for the black/white circle and practice brush control (as described here).
Students used cake tempera and Sharpie markers. This was a good chance to review how to clean their brush before changing colors ( "Swish, swish, wipe, wipe, dab, dab" (on the sponge). Everyone did a great job with this -- no messed up cakes at clean up time!!!
Most students were successful in using complementary colors, but a few did struggle with the concept as they painted their dots. Good thing we will be doing another project next week focusing on complementary colors!!!

Third graders are half done with their lollipop trees (last week's post) and will be finishing up on Thursday so we can add their contribution to our "Dot Day" bulletin boards.

6 comments:

  1. Beautiful dots! And I am so envious of your glass covered display boards - they look so nice. Happy dot day!

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  2. Love! Going to do this with my 6th graders as a comp color review this week! You are getting some great color from those tempra cakes...what brand are they?

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    1. Thanks. They are SAX. I modeled for kids how to really work the brush into the tempera cake to get a strong pigment. Most "got it"!!!

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  3. Don't they make a marvelous group display!! I really like the B&W separating the color fields. Excellent :)

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  4. All my years teaching, and until your posts I had never heard of International Dot Day! Wish I'd known about while I was still teaching! Great lesson, lovely display, by the way.

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    1. Ahhh the beauty of art blogs. I read about it on Hope Hunter Knight's blog -- hadn't heard of it either!! By the way, I thought of you earlier today. It's 93 degrees here (which is a LOT for a beach area!!) so I decided to hunker down and open a Pinterest account. I don't know why I waited so long -- should have started back when you did. I spent the whole day glued to my laptop. Time to stop now!!!!!

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