Christmas Ornaments. 5è primària

To make this Christmas tree ornament, the students started by cutting 20 colored circles of 6 cm diameter. Then they cut different patterned triangles and some pictures of their families and they glued them to each circle.

The next step was to fold each circle into a triangle, creating three sides. Then, they glued the side of one with the side of another in groupings of five, making 2 “hats”.

Afterwards, they added 10 circles in one “hat” by gluing the folding edges together. Next, they glued the other “hat” to the other side.

The final step was to thread a ribbon through a hole at the top of the ornament.

Now, it’s ready to be hung in your tree!

Patterns and dots. Snakes. 5è de primària

The students painted a snake using cotton buds. Firstly, they painted a large black snake curling around a paper, previously painted with rust paint. Then, they printed lines of ochre and brown dots on the snake. The last part consisted of adding white dots around the outline of the snake and printing black and white flowers on the background.

Do you like them?

TRENDY MONA LISA. 1st ESO

Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa in 1503.  The tecnique is oil on poplar, and the dimensions are 77cmx53cm.  The style of the painting is sfumato, without outlines or borders.

You can see the painting at the Louvre Museum, in Paris.

What do you thing about her?

• What does she look like?
• What is she wearing?
• What can you see in the background?
• Where is she looking to?
• Which colours has the artist been using?
• What do you think she is thinking about?
• How old could she be?

Now it's your chance to draw and paint your own Mona Lisa.  Try to represent a 21st Century Woman, original and up-to-dated.

Material required:

• A3 cardboard
• Pencil, eraser
• Coloured pencils or felt-tipped-pens

PORTRAITS. 5è primària

The students of 5è drew a portrait of one of their classmates.

They had to be very concentrated to make the portrait as close as possible to reality. They worked in pairs. The model had to be calm and relaxed because his partner had to observe every detail of the face very carefully. When they finished, the model turned into a painter and vice versa.

The results were very satisfactory. Do you like them?

CHIAROSCURO PORTRAITS. 3rd ESO

After some weeks practising the Chiaroscuro Technique with geometric figures and still lives, it's time to try  using it in faces and portraits.
One of the main issues in portrait drawing is how to mantain proportions. Here you have an excellent website called "How to draw a head".  It will be our guide to get our goal.

Activity:

Choose a celebrity you would like to draw.  Find a black and white picture of his or her head and try to draw it following the instructions you've seen in the website.  After drawing, colour it using the Chiaroscuro Technique.

Good luck!

Primary and Secondary Colours Rainbow display

LANDSCAPE USING LINES. 2nd ESO

We started working "Basic elements of visual language" drawing and painting with dots.  Now it's time to use lines as main elements in a composition.

In this link you'll find the powerpoint we've been working with.

ACTIVITY: LANDSCAPE USING LINES

Draw and colour a landscape using different kinds of lines (wavy, straight, horizontal, curved...).  Try to give the composition a sensation of depht, tracing thicker or thinner lines depending on their distance.  If the part of the landscape that you want to represent is closer, use a thicker line than if it's farther.

Material required:

•  Coloured pencils and felt-tipped pens
• Set square, ruler.
• DIN A4 cardboard with 2cm frame.

You can get inspired by these compositions made by other students (taken from the blog plasticaeso)