LC8's Scarecrows...

Colour Wheel Scarecrows

I have found a wonderful website that is packed with ideas for the visual arts! The website shows examples of children's art work and what the particular art concept is being taught. "deepspacesparkle.blogspot.com". It is from this website that I found my next art lesson.. LC8 learnt about mixing primary colours to create secondary colours through a creating their very own colour wheel scarecrow. Lots of fun... very mess... no pencil allowed...enjoy

Complementary Colours..

Complementary colours are colours that are opposite each other on the colour wheel. We learnt that each primary colour sits opposite a secondary colour, and that each warm colour sits opposite to a cool colour. We explored complemenary colours through the creation of Maori tiki design. The children also incoporated maths knowlegde (fractions and geometry) along side the art knowledge learnt.

We have been learning about colour theory in LC10, 11 and 8. The idea behind progressive visual art lessons is so that the children become skilled in the use and manipulation of colour, tone, texture etc., so that these can be used creatively and confidently in further picture making attempts.
Our first lesson was on colour thoery - the colour wheel. This was to provide information about colour eg primary, secondary, neutral, tints, shades, tones, warm, cool, complimentary (opposites) colours.

In LC8 we started with the warm and cool colours. We then learnt how to blend colours together to make our "blob" creatations. One blob was to demonstrate the warm colours from the colour wheel and the second blob to demonstrate the cool colours. Each blob creation require 2 individual blobs. On the 2nd blob of each, the children had to reverse the colours used eg, red, orange, yellow was then yellow, orange red.BLOB CREATIONS BY LC8 STUDENTS: