Bolt’s Brushes

Monday, January 9, 2023

K & 1st Grade Project # 2 - Fuzzy Polar Bears

Fuzzy Polar Bears

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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

4th and 5th Grade Project #1 - Fall Tree Lines

Fall Tree Lines: A Lesson in Perspective

Click the link above to be taken to the blog with the instructions for this project!

The lesson calls for reading "Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf" however, instead use this YouTube link for the class to hear the book

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf YouTube Reading

Additional resources for the lesson

Vocabulary words:

Perspective:

Perspective in art usually refers to the representation of three-dimensional objects or spaces in two dimensional artworks. Artists use perspective techniques to create a realistic impression of depth, 'play with' perspective to present dramatic or disorientating images.

Blending:

The transition of color from one tone to another; for example, in a sky.

Palette:

A tray or board on which colors of paint are mixed. Also, the set of colors used by an artist in a painting.

Stippling:

A drawing technique in which areas of light and shadow are created using nothing but dots. The basic idea is simple: For darker areas, you apply a greater number of dots and keep them close together

Texture:

The way something feels to the touch. Texture can be real, as in the smoothness of a bronze sculpture, or the bumpiness of thick oil paint on a canvas. Texture can also be implied or imagined, as in painted illusions of the softness of a kitten's fur, or the prickly quality of hay.

4 minute video on PERSPECTIVE

Monday, October 3, 2022

2nd and 3rd Grade Project # 1 - Fall Leaves

Fall Leaves

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The links in the blog are no longer working, so if you'd like to show a few fun videos to get the kids excited about the project, please use these:

Why do leaves change colors? https://youtu.be/Xk4-6II8l5Q

Beautiful Places to see Fall Colors in the US https://youtu.be/aQPlByfzAG4

Kindergarten / 1st Grade, Project # 1 WARM AND COOL CORN

Warm and Cool Corn

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The links in the blog are no longer working, so if you'd like to show a few fun videos to get the kids excited about the project, please use these:

Warm and Cool Colors - https://youtu.be/w6K08wrI9dA

Overview of the Project - https://youtu.be/lgtlxBrGD_Y

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Fourth-Fifth Grade, May/June 2022 - Matisse Flower Vases

Matisse Flower Vases

Click link above to be taken to blog regarding the project. (there is also a description of the project below in simpler instructions)

Please use the link below to show a short video on Matisse

https://youtu.be/kRkdY8VQx1c

Have the students pick out two different color papers (9x12), and fill each page with a different type of pattern using markers. They have to fill up the whole page. Next, I show them how to create the vase- I stress that all vases will turn out different and that is good! We fold one of the patterned papers in half like a "hot dog", then draw the letter 's' starting at the top and working down to the bottom of the "hot dog" page. I remind students that the folded paper should be like a book (fold on the left side, opening on the right). Once they draw their 's' then they cut it out to get their vase. Next, they glue their "tablecloth" (the other patterned page) onto a 12x18 white paper- turned portrait style, not landscape. Then their vase is glued on top of that close to the bottom of the page. Next we add several dots of glue above the vase, stick on layers of pre-cut tissue paper squares, let them dry for a few minute, crinkle them up with our fingers, and finally- draw green stems from the flower to the vase with a green marker. Voila! Beautiful flower vases!