Browsing Archive: February, 2014
Posted by Casey Wilson on Tuesday, February 11, 2014,
How to make colour theory interesting and a project in itself? Colour theory was the bane of my existence at art school - making all those wheels and charts with all the colours my paint could possibly mix felt useless at the time. It has become very important in my teaching, however. Here are some of my assessments of projects I have tried, and not tried:Colour Wheel GeckoThe first colour theory project I attempted with Grade 2 was the colour wheel gecko...
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Posted by Casey Wilson on Tuesday, February 4, 2014,
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I came up with this project in response to the ever-present dilemma of creating non-denominational winter holiday cards.We made full-size (9"x12") landscapes to display as well as quarter-size (4.5"x6") landscapes for the holiday cards, and they were all beautiful. This lesson has been successful so far in Grade 5, and should be appropriate for any intermediate grade, though it has potential as a small group lesson in the primary grades. Materials:
- Blue construction paper
- Black construction pap...
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