Elements of Art Projects Ashley Poolman

Color - Color Wheel Materials: large white paper, scissors, paint, paintbrush, black markers & glue Instructions: paint 4 x 4 blobs of red, red-orange, orange, yellow orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, green-blue, blue, blue-violet, violet, and red violet. Place in drying rack. Create color wheel from previously painted blobs of color. Connect primary and secondary colors using solid line and broken line triangles. Make each grouping a different shape. ! Make sure each of the following color groupings are a different shape on your color wheel. ! Primary colors – red, yellow and blue Secondary colors – orange, green and violet Tertiary colors – red-orange, orange-yellow, yellow-green,green-blue, blue-violet, red-violet

Color Wheel

Line - Landscape Materials: white paper, pencil, Black Sharpie*, colored markers, paintbrush, water Instructions: Draw a cityscape with 5 or 6 skyscrapers varying in height. Add windows to give detail.In the background, create a sunset sky using wavy horizontal lines about 2 fingersapart. Trace over pencil lines with a black Sharpie marker. Add color by tracing next to each black line with a colored marker. Apply a wet paintbrush immediately to ‘paint’ the color around. Place in drying rack.

Landscape

Texture – Wild Things Materials:white paper, black crayon, oil pastels, paintbrush & water Instructions: Use black crayon to draw a ‘Wild Thing’ of your own adding implied textures with oil pastels. Paint entire ‘Wild Thing’ with watercolor paint (even over the oil pastels). Place in drying rack.

Wild Thing

Value & Scale Materials white paper, pencil, paintbrush, paint & water Instructions: Part 1- Create a simple value scale by dividing your 1X6 paper in 6 sections. Shade the! sections from lightest to darkest using graphite pencil. Part 2- Fold white paper in half and cut into a symmetrical butterfly. Open butterfly shape and paint the outside border with a solid color. Mix that color with a little white and paint shapes in the center of the butterfly. Continue adding white until you have a very muted shade of the original color. Place in drying rack.

Value

Form – Amusement Park Materials:construction paper strips, glue, scissors Instructions: Create a 3-dimensional imaginary amusement park using folded, twisted, bent, and curved construction paper pieces glued to a background piece of paper. Anything goes!

Amusement Park

Shape – Shaded Object Instructions: Draw a simple object and shade to look real. Consider light source. Materials: color pencils and paper

Shaded Object

Space – Perspective Drawing Instructions: Draw a simple perspective landscape showing foreground, middleground and background. Add color using bold and interesting choices. Materials: markers, color pencils, paper

Perspective Drawing