Printmaking, Texture, and Creative Trees

Continuing with our talks about the Elements of Art we learned more about Lines, Pattern and introduced Texture. 

Some classes worked on printmaking with leaves and paint. We talked about how the bumped up texture of the veins of the leaves made it so we could make prints.

We also talked about how artists use pattern to add Texture and detail. Students were able to use sharpies to add pattern to pre-printed leaves to show more texture. 

We learned the difference between texture and visual texture and talked about how artists use line, pattern and color to show visual texture. 

Inspiration

The first few classes this year have focused on the Elements of Art including Color, Line & Pattern. We also discussed just making your mark and getting started, Inspiration, and color mixing. 

We watched a read-aloud of The Dot, by Peter Reynolds, and then made our marks on large white dots of color diffusing paper with Primary color markers (red, yellow & blue).  We then talked about color mixing and used droppers to add water to our colorful dots to watch the Primary colors mix into the Secondary colors. 

After our colorful dots dried we learned about different types of lines and practiced making patterns. We then watched a read-aloud of You Be You, by Linda Krantz, and talked about how the illustrator used line patterns to show the scales of the fish. We added an eye, mouth, gills & a fin with a sharpie before completing our fish with line patterns.