by Dennas Davis | Aug 24, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW Introduction to the idea of lines as edges, and oil pastel technique with mixing & blending. Students use a photo of a scotty dog bas-relief sculpture for reference, but it’s turned upside down. This allows it to be drawn more accurately because it’s hard for...
by Dennas Davis | Aug 9, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW Students enjoy working with two fun ways to create stars. Realistic star patterns are made by splattering white paint on a dark paper background, and expressive stars are made with thick paint and by copying Van Gogh’s Starry Night. If time, early finishers...
by Carrie Hull | Aug 7, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW Students learn about 2 important, yet different types of drawing: expressive work from memory, and more realistic work using observation. The main point is that these are both valid directions to take, but that they don’t tend to mix well in one piece of art....
by Dennas Davis | Jul 27, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW Students will have fun making bouncy spiral snakes with their own designs by drawing on our printed pdf snake templates. Then everyone is introduced to clay with playdough for a warmup, before moving into an 3D project of an animal that they’ll be able to...
by Carrie Hull | Jul 23, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Young artists will have a blast learning how printmaking works and creating their own sets of images. Stations make it easy and keeps everyone moving as they draw ideas, make printing plates from styrofoam, then add ink, and print them onto paper. Then they...
by Carrie Hull | Jul 13, 2020 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW Students will continue our pet theme. First we’ll make prints using the cat yarn print blocks from last week, and then create dog drawings and paintings. We end the day inventing a fantastic dog house! Grades 3 – 5 Week of Nov 27 – Dec 1 1 Hour...
