Endless Possibilities

2nd grade artist,  watercolor and marker collage

4th grade student, collage with water-colored paper and marker

2nd and 3rd grade artists, these were all made from our painted watercolor charts

 When we grow up we start to believe that if you have lemons, go ahead, finish it... you make lemonade.  Children have the gift of believing they can travel, become, soar, navigate and dream with a painted sheet of paper.
 Note to self:  Keep your eyes on the lemons.- 

Cut Paper Collage

The week after torn collage, we did cut paper collage.  I just love to see Kinder cut paper, they are so engaged.  I demonstrated cutting strips into rectangles, rectangles into triangles and how to cut round shapes by turning the paper not the scissors.  They really absorbed everything so easily.  To see a lot more, click on this link.

Making Tints

 

One of the objectives for this lesson was to understand how to make tints.   The palette included the secondary colors plus white.  They could paint any type of plant life they imagined as long as it was large.
 The last day we added gold paint to the background which I feel added an ethereal quality to the paintings. 

Dreaming

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

  Robert Kennedy 






 

Our color charts were transformed into dreamy landscapes against a night sky.






These are a mix of Kinder, First and Second
They all loved it!

Strengths

 We all know him, whether it's from childhood memories or you may know him now.  He may be thinking, I'm the quiet student.  The new one.  Let me show you what makes me happy, my strengths.    

The patience and craftsmanship this student has is truly wonderful.  Therein lies his strengths.


 It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

Vincent van Gogh