The second graders moved onto their color unit by studying the art of Hans Hoffman. They came to recognize his style as well as analyzed how color was used in his paintings. They quickly saw that art often uses color to convey different emotions. They were even able to view a small clip from "Inside Out" and discussed how the different emotions in the main characters head was associated with different colors. Each student drew a different emotion out of a container and were given the opportunity to trade with the people sitting next to them if they wished. The class then brainstormed different colors they might want to use in their Hans Hoffman inspired pictures that might convey the emotion that they drew out of the container. To help, I had a color wheel with different emotions placed on the spectrum. Their first steps were to pick out four to five different colored tissue papers and cut squares and rectangles of varying sizes, much like the squares and rectangles that Hoffman used. Once all their shapes were cut, they were able to jump right into using Mod Podge as a glue to stick the tissue paper shapes onto their paper. They were able to see how the different colors related to each other and how they changed when they overlapped.
The second graders learned about texture and pattern in this embossed picture project. They learned what embossed means and examples of embossing in paper, leather, and metal. The word "texture" was introduced and they saw how their embossed pictures will have texture if they run their hands over it.
They began by picking out a piece of cardboard that had notches cut into the sides. They threaded yarn through these notches, making sure to cross and overlap the yarn from one side of their picture to the other. Once completed, they taped the yarn down and covered the surface with tinfoil to create an embossed metal look. Within the spaces created by the yarn, students drew different patterns by making repeating lines or shapes. The second graders moved on from line to shape in this Paul Klee cityscape project. They learned about the artist Paul Klee as well as geometric shapes. They learned what cityscapes were and then spent time identifying the names of geometric shapes within Paul Klee's artwork.
The students started off by drawing tall rectangles of different heights on their papers to make skyscrapers. They then broke down the rectangle into smaller rectangles and squares. They found that if they could create triangles in the skyscrapers by connected the corners of squares with a diagonal lines. Some students chose to put triangles on the top of some skyscrapers and draw circles in the sky for moons or suns. Once drawn, the 2nd graders outlined their pencil lines in black crayon. Within the shapes, students colored different colored crayons in the style of Paul Klee. They learned the importance of drawing dark, rich and waxy in order to cover up all their white spaces. Their last step, in order to create a look similar to Paul Klee's paintings, they crinkled their papers, painted black watered down paint on their drawings, and had me rinse the paint off. By crinkling the paper, small cracks formed in the crayon, allowing the black paint to set in the creases and resist the crayon. In this line unit, the 2nd graders learned how to identify and differentiate vertical and horizontal lines. They began by naming things around the room that were examples of either vertical or horizontal, whether it was the leg of a table of the bottom of the dry erase board.
When they were ready to start their collages, they took different colored paper and cut them into thick, thin, long and short lines. Once these lines were cut out, they used glue sticks to glue them onto their papers, making sure to keep them either vertical or horizontal. They continued filling in the entire black background until their paper was filled with lines. So many 2nd graders seem to have a natural artistic eye in knowing where to place what kind of line so that the whole composition looked finished. Even though they were all required to glue down their lines vertically or horizontally, everyones' line collages looked so drastically different from one another. They truly made some beautiful work! The 2nd graders reviewed their shapes and learned what repeating shapes and repeating lines were. They chose colored paper to trace and cut out shapes. In order to make sure they had repeating shapes, they made sure to glue down the shapes more than once. In addition to repeating shapes, they drew repeating lines in their picture by outlining their shapes until all the background was filled. |
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