Third Grade is Blooming--Georgia O'Keefe We Love Your Style

We are drawing large flowers from photos and using tints and shades to paint them. The goal is to learn to use gradations of paint to create lights and shadows, as we did with the pastels in our still lifes to make them look three dimensional, not flat.

Fourth Grade Paints Chuck Close Style

Fourth graders are painting self-portraits by enlarging their photographs from 1 inch squares to three inch squares. They are using tempera paint to paint at least three tints on their faces. We paint the background first, then paint forward to the front. I can identify many from their drawings. Great job fourth graders! These are unfinished portraits.