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.

WOW what a busy day!  Today is one of those days that I see a lot of grades, 5th, 4th, 3rd and 2nd.  It is always a blur.  My hands were covered in clay for 5th grade, so no pictures yet and black paint took over during 4th.  I was lucky enough to get one picture for 3rd and even one for 2nd.  It was such a MESSY day!  You may notice that both pictures, although different classes, were taken at the same table, they are the closet to my desk where the camera was trying to stay clean and out of the way.

A TINTED background for 3rd grade.

 Third grade concentrates on color theory.  We have learned all about Primary and Secondary colors, the Warm and Cool color groups, and now we are getting into Tint and Shade.  Today was about TINT.  What is a tint you ask... it is a color that is made lighter by adding white. Everyone got to choose 4 colors plus white to drag vertically on a huge piece of paper.  These will serve as eye-popping backgrounds for a winter tree in the style of Gustav Klimt... more to come next week!

2nd grade keeping it cool (or warm)

2nd grade and 1st grade are following a similar style of project, there are just some small tweaks of concepts to fit in with the curriculum.  We read Frozen Noses by Jan Carr and created illustrations in the style of Dorthy Donohue.  The illustrations were tucked away so we could paint either a WARM or COOL themed background.  Everyone tried very hard to visually break their paper into equal thirds... tricky concept, but I think we got it.  We also revisited the directions of vertical and horizontal.