Showing posts with label tempera paint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tempera paint. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Pop Art Inspired Paintings

In my 8th grade painting class we moved from color mixing and the color wheel to learning about color schemes. I introduced my students to the work of Andy Warhol and the artistic style of Pop Art. They had to choose four color schemes and draw an image of their choice to replicate for times. Then, using tempera paint, they had to paint each image using a different color scheme. 





Monday, April 2, 2012

Cherry Blossoms

March is Cherry Blossom season and since I teach in the Nations Capital, Washington, D.C., home of the National Cherry Blossom Festival I decided to have students to create landscape drawings of their city. Online, I found some beautiful pictures of the title basin and the cherry blossoms that I was able to print out in color. My 6th grade students recreated the landscape scenes using tempera paint, watercolor paint and white acrylic paint.