Elements of Art Projects

Ashley Poolman

Color - Color Wheel• Materials: large white paper, scissors, paint, paintbrush, black markers & glue• Instructions: paint 4 x 4 blobs of red, red-orange, orange, yellow orange,

yellow, yellow-green, green, green-blue, blue, blue-violet, violet, and red violet. Place in drying rack.

• Create color wheel from previously painted blobs of color. Connect primary and

• secondary colors using solid line and broken line triangles. Make each grouping a different shape. !

• Make sure each of the following color groupings are a different• shape on your color wheel. !• Primary colors – red, yellow and blue• Secondary colors – orange, green and violet• Tertiary colors – red-orange, orange-yellow, yellow-green,green-blue, blue-

violet, red-violet

Color Wheel

Line - Landscape

• Materials: white paper, pencil, Black Sharpie*, colored markers, paintbrush, water

• Instructions: Draw a cityscape with 5 or 6 skyscrapers varying in height. Add windows to give detail.In the background, create a sunset sky using wavy horizontal lines about 2 fingersapart. Trace over pencil lines with a black Sharpie marker. Add color by tracing next to each black line with a colored marker. Apply a wet paintbrush immediately to ‘paint’ the color around. Place in drying rack.

Landscape

Texture – Wild Things

• Materials:white paper, black crayon, oil pastels, paintbrush & water

• Instructions: Use black crayon to draw a ‘Wild Thing’ of your own adding implied textures with oil pastels. Paint entire ‘Wild Thing’ with watercolor paint (even over the oil pastels). Place in drying rack.

Wild Thing

Value & Scale • Materials white paper, pencil, paintbrush, paint & water• Instructions:• Part 1-• Create a simple value scale by dividing your 1X6 paper in 6

sections. Shade the! sections from lightest to darkest using graphite pencil.

• Part 2-• Fold white paper in half and cut into a symmetrical

butterfly. Open butterfly shape and paint the outside border with a solid color. Mix that color with a little white and paint shapes in the center of the butterfly. Continue adding white until you have a very muted shade of the original color. Place in drying rack.

Value

Form – Amusement Park

• Materials:construction paper strips, glue, scissors

• Instructions:• Create a 3-dimensional imaginary

amusement park using folded, twisted, bent, and curved construction paper pieces glued to a background piece of paper. Anything goes!

Amusement Park

Shape – Shaded Object

• Instructions: Draw a simple object and shade to look real. Consider light source.

• Materials: color pencils and paper

Shaded Object

Space – Perspective Drawing

• Instructions: Draw a simple perspective landscape showing foreground, middleground and background. Add color using bold and interesting choices.

• Materials: markers, color pencils, paper

Perspective Drawing