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.