Watercolor with Music

 Description: For this project, the teachers started by reading a story to the class about how music can influence art and emotions. We then practiced some different techniques for painting with watercolors. The techniques include the following:

- Gradient Wash

- Flat Wash

- Crayon Resist

- Blotting

- Sgraffito

-Wet on wet



After practicing those watercolor techniques, the instructors challenged the students to use those techniques while painting how you feel when certain songs were played. The first song that was played was a quick classical piece while the second song was a more upbeat rock song. The next few songs consisted of pop music. The first pop song was a bit slower and the second one was faster. 

Extension Activity: Another activity that could go along with this lesson would be to play a few more song clips and challenge students to focus on one of the water color techniques for each song. This would help students practice all techniques and learn about how some techniques may be simpler than others depending on how they are feeling. Students could then label and describe each technique that they used in each image. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Cup Weaving

Image
 Description: For this project, students picked yarn of their choice. I chose the color blue to represent my favorite color, and the color lime green to represent my past favorite color. I ended up getting six arms lengths of each color to ensure that I would have enough to cover the whole cup. Students then cut along the dotted lines on the cup to create different sections. Once the sections were created the students tied a knot and started using an over/under technique to weave through each section of the cup. Students then tied the second color to the first color when they wanted the color change to occur. Once the yarn made it to the top of the cup the students created another not to secure the yarn to the cup.  Extension Activity: Another activity that could go along with this project would be talking about the different cultures around the world that do a lot of basket weaving. We can talk about the art of basket weaving and the cultures that they belong to before teachi...
Read more

Drawing Night and Day Patterns

Image
 Description: For this project we analyzed different art pieces from Bridget Riley OP Art and Zentagle art to express the different patterns that the artists used in their work. We asked students what different elements and principles of design they noticed in the art work that Bridget Riley and Zentagle created. We then asked students to brainstorm two patterns that remind them of night and two patterns that remind them of day. We then walked the students through the process of creating the art piece. We walked the students through splitting the page and drawing the sun and the moon. We then had students use cold colors on the night time side and warm colors on the day time side.  Extension Activity: Another activity that could go with this project would be a read aloud of the book "Goodnight Moon." This book uses a lot of rhyming words that could be integrated into a lesson about night and day. After creating the art, the students could come up with a rhyme to go with their...
Read more

5 Pictures of the Elements and Principles of Design

Image
Description: For this activity, the students were asked to take pictures for each of th elements and principles of design. A presentation was made using all the pictures that the students have taken in order to allow them to describe what each image was representing related to the elements and principles of design. The first picture of the ring lights was used to represent shape in the presentation. The tile image represents texture. The picture of the football field was used to represent space. The picture of the makeup pallete represented unity and variety. The final picture of the Nike shoe was used to represent a pattern.  Extension Activity: While looking at the images that I took, I notice that many of them could be representative of multiple elements or principles of design. Another activity that can be done with this would be to have students take pictures and then write about all of the elements and principles of design they can use to describe the image that they took. Th...
Read more