So, if you haven't figured it out by now...I just really look up to and admire Cassie Stephens! You'll see her name A LOT on this blog. She's a fellow Tennessee art teacher, and knocks folks socks off with her AWESOME lessons, FUN teaching style, and FANTASTIC wardrobe! I wanna be just like her, when I grow up! haha
She really has helped revamp my "art teacherin'" (as she says) style, even after 13 years of teaching, and inspired me to create my own blog. With that said, here's another one of her super fun lessons we're going to try! We are the bengals, so this is a perfect lesson for my students to attempt! This project teaches them about elements of art, analogous colors, blending, and uses a new and different medium she's introduced us all to....Bingo Daubers!!
Here's her original post-
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Here's how we created ours!
Materials:
Starch
First, I had to fill up the bingo daubers with India ink. I used Cassie's recipe of 2/3 ink and 1/3 water. So far, so good!
Day 1: Discuss the artist, elements of art, draw out our tigers together, and talk about how we're going to color our tigers. I started each class with a piece of practice paper, so they could get used to the daubers. I explained how we don't squeeze the bottles, we just tap the end when we need more ink to come out. By the time we finished drawing these, we had about 5 min extra. We just watched Mrs. Stephens talk about analogous colors, and demonstrate how to use the chalk and starch. After that, it was time to go! We have 45 minute classes, btw!
Day 2: Talk about analogous colors, blending, and using chalk pastels, and get to work! We might have to spend an additional day coloring, but I'm not sure yet!
Day 3: Add designs with oil pastels!
Stay tuned for some awesome art!
Here's some GRRRRRREAT examples from Mrs. Torres' Class!
Here's Mrs. Moss' class, doing a great job on their tigers too!
Here's Mrs. Torres' class, coloring their little hearts out!!
They're using chalk and starch to add analogous colors to their art!
Dr. Fambrough class is catching up quick! (we had pictures when we first started this project)
Great job friends!
Ms. Braswell's class is finishing up this week, and doing a great job too!
