Joyful painting for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grades!and Eric Carle!

JOYFUL PAINT!

SORRY IF YOUR KIDS ARE COMING HOME WITH PAINT ON THEIR CLOTHES!  READ MORE TO FIND OUT WHY! 

First, third and fourth grades are making Eric Carle style collages.   First grade will be making a still life, third grade will make a portrait and fourth will make a landscape.

Eric Carle is the author and illustrator of at least 70 children's books.  He wrote " The Very Hungry Caterpillar".  He has his own style of painting tissue paper and adding texture to the paint using different tools.  He uses the painted papers to create his collage style illustrations.  He loves color! 
 http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html

Soooo...we are creating the painted papers.  It's is a mess but it is sooo joyful!  Everyone loves making the painted papers and It is not without learning more about art.  First we made intermediate colors, turned our brush over and then scribbled and made patterns in the paint.  Next we added white to create tints of a color and black to create a shade of a color.  Lastly, using the papers we already made, we used different tools to add texture and more color to the papers.

Yellow green, red orange, blue violet, red violet.

Top:  yellow orange, blue green.  Bottom:  tints-light green, light blue, pink.

Looks like blue violet.

Using tools to make texture and make it more interesting.

Yes its messy! but fun!

At the end, we let Mrs. Hiner use all of the brushes to paint.

For two weeks the drying rack has been full.

Paint stations-marble painting & stamping.

This is the "Jackson Pollock" station where you sling and dribble the paint on to the paper.

Here is the "intermediate rainbow"!  Yellow orange, red orange, red violet, blue violet, blue green and yellow green.