1. Elements of Art Projects
Ashley Poolman

2. 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

3. Color Wheel

4. 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.

5. Landscape

6. 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.

7. Wild Thing

8. 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.

9. Value

10. 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!

11. Amusement Park

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

13. Shaded Object

14. 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

15. Perspective Drawing