This week, we looked at the art of Vincent Van Gogh, talked about the Element of Art, VALUE, and started creating these cute lil pumpkin paintings! Here's Van Gogh's painting, we were inspired by.
Starry Night
Starry Night
Day 1: Drew the pumpkin on a 12"x12" piece of 90 lb paper with Mrs. Stacey. We started with the middle section and worked our way out. Then, we drew the objects in the background, with a pencil.
Then, we traced with Crayola Oil Pastels. I like the giant class pack!
Day 2: Paint! We talked about the element of art value, and how the shadows are usually on the bottom and the highlights are usually on top of the object. It just depends on where the light source is! We started with brown paint on the bottom, orange paint in the middle, and yellow paint on the top. We also talked about blending the paint to make it more of a gradual transition between colors.
This is my new favorite tempera paint!
Stay tuned for some more student work!
This is so cute!
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DeleteHi! I would love to make these with my 2nd garders! I don't have tempera cakes. What can I use instead? Watercolor?
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DeleteThank you for this question, I was wondering the same thing!!! I've googled it (since, of course, we've already done the drawings and oil pastel steps). You can use watercolor. I'm going to try liquid tempera...EEK...hope it works!
Deleteyou could try watercolor, but you'll go through A LOT it! If you have a lot of oranges and yellows stock piled, go for it! Let me know how liquid tempera does! I just love the tempera cakes, because of their ease to set out and use!
DeleteHi can do with watercolors but I would not recommend it the first time with this medium. If you do, teach them to draw them pumpkins in pencil... whisper draw( lightly) and then teach them to dance like a toe dancer on the orange and use dark watercolor lines along the lines of the pumpkins (pencil) lines. More paint than water. Then go to the carpet and read or play a game for that to dry. Then go back and show how to use orange and yellow to paint the full pumpkin. Hold the paintbrush sideways to “swish” the color. The child’s hand on todo of paintbrush and going sideways back and forth. After all orange and yellow are used, tap into brown for stem and green to swirl the vines of the pumpkin.
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