Art: Painting Leaves

Fall presents perfect opportunities to use all the colors of the color wheel.  The girls selected a leaf and used their knowledge of symmetry to draw the leaf.  First, they made dots in corresponding spots on their paper to show where the leaf pointed out and where it dipped in.  Then, they connected the dots to get an accurate drawing of the contour of their leaf.  They mixed the colors they saw in their leaves using the color wheel as a guide.  

Art: Complementary Color Cut-outs

One of our approaches to the "Relationships" theme in art is to learn the specific vocabulary that describes color relationships.  Complementary colors is a fancy term for opposite colors.  (The monochromatic self-portraits focused on analogous colors - colors next to each other on the color wheel.) The girls cut symmetrical shapes out of colored paper and glued the positive and negative results to the opposite color.  Complementary colors are used together to create a visual buzz or vibration.