A rabbit's eye view: elementary.With the onset of spring, I engage my second-grade students to make a picture of a spring garden at "rabbit's-eye view." Students pretend they are a rabbit hopping through a beautiful flower garden with a camera. Then, we draw a picture as it would appear in one of the rabbit's photographs. Before the project begins, I spread hundreds of flower pictures on the tables for reference. I show them an example of a finished project often to give them a basis to start their own piece of art. Students who might be artistically challenged feel better about themselves if they can get ideas from other sources. They start their drawing with pencil. I demonstrate how to draw flowers, petals, stems and leaves on a 12 x 18" (31 x 46 cm) piece of white drawing paper. I show them how to draw flowers and leaves, behind other flowers to show foreground foreground - (Unix) On a time-sharing system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user in contrast to one running in the background. and background in their drawings. No sky is to be visible because a rabbit is so short, but students can use butterflies or a bug or two to enhance their drawings. After their pictures are loaded with flowers and fauna fauna All the species of animals found in a particular region, period, or special environment. Five faunal realms, based on terrestrial animal species, are generally recognized: Holarctic, including Nearactic (North America) and Paleartic (Eurasia and northern Africa); , students outline their pencil lines with a fine, black permanent marker A permanent marker is a type of marker pen that is used to create permanent writing on an object. Generally the liquid is water resistant, contains the toxic chemical xylene or toluene, and is capable of writing on a variety of surfaces from paper to metal to stone. . Next, they paint with watercolor paints. Making sure everyone has a smock on, I ask them to paint the flower tops first, urging them to use bright colors, since the background is green. I caution them not to paint next to an area that is wet to avoid the paints from running into each other. When the flowers are dry, students paint the leaves and stems, and lastly, the background. I encourage them to use their mixing tray to create various shades of greens Shades of Green is a United States Department of Defense-owned resort located at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It is an Armed Forces Recreation Center (AFRC) resort and therefore a part of the military's Morale, Welfare, and Recreation program (MWR). , using yellow, white, brown, or black. This project is perfect for second graders, and is completed in three, forty-minute sessions. It can also be adapted to higher grade levels, including middle school or high school, perhaps using colored chalks, tempera tempera (tĕm`pərə), painting method in which finely ground pigment is mixed with a solidifying base such as albumen, fig sap, or thin glue. , or acrylic paints. The finished product is a colorful display of flora and fauna to usher us into spring. Teaching students to draw from a different point of view can help them with future projects and it can broaden their creative expression. ClipCard submitted by June A. Carey, an elementary art teacher at Big Cross Street and Kensington Road Kensington Road is a short section of road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea forming part of the A315. It runs along the south edge of Kensington Gardens. To the west it becomes Kensington High Street, to the east it becomes Kensington Gore. Schools in Glens Falls, New York Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,354 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from the large waterfall in the Hudson River at the southern base of the city. . |
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