In our recent art unit, the 5th grade learned about contrast in colors and painting. First of all, we started a unit with creating a 3 dimensional letter (the first letter of our name). Our first step was in our notebooks. We all sketched different ways that our letter could be shaped. Examples: Curvy, straight, bubble shaped, spiky etc. I decided to do my letter in a bubble shape. After we knew what our letter was going to look like, we had to re draw it on a piece of cardboard. Then, we ripped newspaper and stuffed it so it fit inside the lines I drew and taped it down. While we were taping, we had to make sure that the tape was tightly pushed against the edges of the newspaper so the letter wouldn't loose its shape. After that, we placed tinfoil over and around the newspaper and tape so that way we could still see our shape under the tinfoil. After we put the tinfoil on, we spread Vaseline all over the tinfoil. At first, I didn't know why, but then I found out that our next step would be dipping pieces of cast material in cold water and placing down over the tinfoil. I didn't get to that step yet, but Miss Helen decided to give us a mini painting lesson with tints and shades, because when the cast material was on our letters, we'd paint it. On one table, we had to draw tints of blue and on the other table, shades of red and black. Then, we had a similar lesson but on contrast. We all drew 4 bubble letters of our letter we chose and tried out different backgrounds and colors of our letters using contrast. Here are some pictures of me working on this project:
The picture above shows me trying to create a good contrast between purple and yellow
and design and solid. I used a polk- a dot- design with the purple (which is not pictured yet) but I think that also trying to use my imagination to make sure they look well presented on paper for my actual work.
In this picture, I am finishing up one of my own made up designs with the orange marker and also using contrast by coloring blue for the background, because blue and orange are well contrasted colors
and I'm trying to make sure I leave some white so it would look like it would be a tint of blue.
Finally, in this picture is the before drawing of the picture which is the picture before this one.
I started with the background color so that way, when I did the inside design, it wont blend into the
blue. I wanted it to be contrasted, not blended. So, I decided on the background color first.
I really enjoyed this unit and I think I learned all about...
- Tints and Shades
- Contrast
- Painting
- Structure
- Form
- Change
- Casustion
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