Fabulous Friday! Learning About Warm and Cool colours

On Friday we focus on the arts.

Please check out:
Ms. Stecyk and Ms. Donovan's music sing alongs  and activities (emailed and also the YouTube link on our blog sidebar)
Ms. Swire's active living and dance activities (emailed)
Ms. Tirkos's Drama site (on our blog sidebar) 

Here on our Blog, we will focus on Visual Arts.  I like to create things with my hands. I like to sew, sculpt, paint and draw - and also mix it all together to make mixed media art. 

We have learned a lot about colour this year in Room 9. We have learned colour names and what happens if you mix certain colours. 

One of our favourite books was Mouse Mess! You can read and listen to it again!

When we talk about temperature,  we talk about warm and cool. Colours can be warm and cool too. We say that red, orange and yellow are warms colours. Blue, green and purple are cool colours. 

In this painting, an artist named Georgia O'Keeffe used warm colours to paint this flower. She called it "Canna Red and Orange" (canna is the kind of flower)

Mark Rothko used warm colours to create this painting. He called it "Orange and Yellow"

Vincent Van Gogh painted this landscape (an outside picture of the land around him) using cool colours. It is called The Olive Trees.

 Pablo Picasso painted this family in cool colours. This painting is called The Tragedy. Tragedy means that something sad has happened. They say that blue colours are also sometimes sad colours.

When Vincent Van Gogh painted his Sunflowers, he used a cool background colour to help the warm coloured flowers stand out more. 

Georgia O'Keeffe used a warm red background to help her cool coloured leaves stand out in "Calla Lilies on Red"

Ms. Brown used a warm background to help her cool coloured dog stand out more in this painting called Tilly. 

We are going to make some art with warm and cool colours. 

Take a blank piece of paper and colour the bottom half with cool colours. Colour the top half with warm colours. You could use paint, or markers or crayons - or even watered down food colouring if that is all you have.  Just use one kind of medium - that means use one kind of colouring tool - don't do part crayon and part marker (it will be hard to add the details later). If you don't have markers. crayons or paint, you could use coloured paper. Use a warm colour for the top and a cool colour for the bottom.

I used crayon for this one: 

I used watercolours for this one: 

Your colours might be much brighter than mine! Our school paints are still at school, and I am at my home!
Now you have some water at the bottom and some red sky at the top. Red sky? When is the sky red? The sky might be red at sunrise or sunset. 

So now we have to add our sun! 
If you painted your background, then you could use a black marker  or crayon.
If you used crayon for your background, then use crayon for your lines.
If you used marker for your background, then use marker or crayon for your lines.
First make a circle or a half circle for your sun.

Use different kinds of lines to make the rays for your sun! Wavy, dotted, squiggles, zig zags.... Don't do them just like mine -- YOU are the artist - make your lines however you want them. 

And make more lines going straight across the bottom like waves! 

Don't forget to sign your name!