1st Grade Warm and Cool Colors

Wow! I was so impressed with the work these 1st graders did! We spent some time talking about warm and cool colors and what they reminded us of. One girl told the class "My picture reminds me of Red Lobster!" We used crayon and watercolor for the background. If a student used a cool background, they used cool colors for the cylinders on their paper. If they used a warm background, they stuck to warm colors for the cylinders. We took a whole class period to make cylinders, holding each for ten seconds, then dipping the bottom in glue and sticking it to the paper. They entire class created such a beautiful mix of warm and cool colors!

5th Expressive Portraits

These expressive self-portraits turned out awesome! The 5th graders looked at expressive portraits by famous artists and discussed how each portrait gave off a different emotion. They each had to decide on their own emotion they would portray in their self portrait. I took each of their pictures and printed them in black and white. Then, the students had to choose colors that went along with their expression. Warm colors were used for the more positive and happy expressions, while cool colors were used for the more sad, calm or shy pictures. Nice job 5th grade!

1st Grade Portraits

We used warm and cool colors to show happy and sad emotions in our 1st grade portraits. We drew our portraits with sharpie and cut them out. The 1st graders used a pattern for the background and then painted with watercolor over the entire thing.