Tints and Shade of Snowmen

3rd Grade is learning about TINTS and SHADES.  We have learned a lot about how to mix colors, and now we are practicing making tints and shades.
Tint has a kind of a rhyme... all you need to remember is to make a Tint, add White, and it makes it light.  Tint-White-Light.
Shade is a different story, no rhymes, but some letters in common.  To made a Shade, add Black, and it makes it Dark.

A work in progress, Day One- TINTs

The art room was a buzz on day one.  Wow, look at this color!!! I made a tint!  Does this tint look darker?  Day One we mixed 3 tints-a light, medium, and dark.

Day Two - Shades took over.  We mixed a shade of our original color to paint the snowman's accessories.  Once again, a buzz of excitement.  Everyone was very careful to only use a little black at a time.

I was so happy with how these paintings turned out that I hung them up immediately in the display case.  Fortunately, 1st grade also finished their pinch pot snowmen today, and the 3rd grade painting make a beautiful backdrop.

Third Grade has gone a bit more in depth, how can we tell a visual story with a beginning, middle, and end.  A story of what you ask? A snowman of course!  What could possibly happen to our snowman that can be illustrated in 3 frames... we brainstormed a great list on the board.

Then, it was sketchbook time-

Finally, the projects, which are not all way finished, but great so far!

Can you guess this last one?

There is a snowman... and a snowflake... and what, a tongue?  Ahhh, the snowman is catching and eating the snowflake. 

How the time flies!  It is our last week before Holiday break and all classes are scrambling to finish projects that we have been working on for quite some time.  A few classes had the chance to get creative with snowmen!  Different grade levels are trying out different ideas.... 1st and 2nd grade we were focusing on different perspectives, or point of view.

Snowman Snapshots

Great angles and perspectives... they caught the snowman with great expression.  Smile snowman... you are getting your picture taken : )