SNAKES ALIVE!Middle School My students love snakes Snake 1 n. pl. Snake or Snakes See Shoshone. snake n. 1. , so I decided to turn their enthusiasm into a design lesson. We first discussed some facts about snakes and compared the different patterns, colors, sizes, and head shapes of various snakes. I demonstrated how to create the snake's head snake's head see fritillaria meleagris. by using basic shapes and rounding the edges. We drew the left side of the body, curving it around and overlapping it in any direction. Then, we drew the right side of the body parallel with the left side, remembering that the snake's body is widest in the middle and tapers to a point at the tail. After practicing, students made a final sketch on 12 x 18" (30 x 46 cm) white paper or oak tag board and outlined it in 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. . We used colored tissue paper to create the colors and patterns for the snakes. We tore Tore can refer to:
adj. Having a nap produced by brushing: a dress made of brushed cotton. brushed Adjective Textiles them on flat with decoupage glue, covering the entire snake's body. Design patterns, as well as eyes, teeth, fangs, and pit nostrils, were drawn on the snake's body with permanent black marker. We cut the snakes out and set them aside. Since snakes live in many different climates and environments, the background possibilities were endless. On another piece of 12 x 18" oak tag board, the details were added in pencil--leaves, twigs, cacti, branches, etc. We painted the details in with watercolor and 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. paints. Some of the students cut out the painted details so their snake could be positioned behind or around an object. Markers could also be used to outline around the details. We "filled in" the remaining background areas around the snake and added details with watercolor paints and a small damp sponge. The watercolor sponge technique helped to create the background soil, rocks, leaves, and debris. We let these dry before the snakes were glued down on the background paper. Again, positioning the snake on the background was important. ClipCard submitted by Marlene Wahila, an art teacher at Tioga Middle School in Tioga Center, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . |
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