by Dennas Davis | Feb 2, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Everyone loves elephants! Artists learn how to draw a cartoon version, which also helps them learn how to simplify. Then they will have a chance to draw and paint more realistically, and in the process learn how to mix blacks and grays. – –...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 25, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students learn how the concept of harmony applies to visual art just like music. A flower is drawn from reference and painted as a spectrum in watercolor for color-wheel flowers. The arrangement of the colors is used to show harmony, along with some games of...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 18, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Balance in real life is understandable, but what about visual balance? Students learn that people like to see things that look balanced so they don’t feel like they might fall over if they were real. Several exercises, a slideshow, and projects help with...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 12, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Using some simple big shapes and line, artists will draw and paint a bird. There is a background done with streaked colors and then the bird is drawn, glued to the background, and painted to match. During part of the lesson, we discuss and learn about...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 4, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW After a warm up with artists’ choice, students learn how to make light swords with a glowing technique using oil pastels. The swords do battle with hot and cold colors. Then there is a super-fun table-mural game called, Color Wars, where children will learn...
by Dennas Davis | Dec 15, 2023 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will Students will learn about snowflakes, first drawing some snowflake designs, and then painting a large snowflake in tempera paint. They’ll end their lesson with a choice of working on some holiday cartoons or doing a pastel of lights at night....
