VISUAL ARTS: WEEK OF Dec 13th - Dec 19th

Full Remote & Hybrid Learning (8 themed pages)

LESON LINK: Winter Themed Activities

Select TWO out of the following activities on the next pages to complete for this week:

• Water color landscape painting using tape and salt.

• Continue on with a NEW paper mache sculpture of your choice.

• Create a winter “how to draw activity”. No colors? Practice your shading on your drawing. Have paint? Go for it.

Activity Option #1 Winter Birch Trees

Just add strips of masking tape and then dark blue watercolor on thick paper with some salt sprinkled over it. After it dries you take off the tape, paint on the moon with white paint and use watered down blue or a color selection of your choice of watercolor to put shadows and lines on the trees.

Activity Option #2

Winter Wonderland Paper Mache Sculptures

Continue on with making a series of paper-mache winter woodland creatures or another sculpture of your choice.

• Click above link for recipe and instruction guidelines on build. options

Option #3a-e. How to Draw Step by Steps)

(a) CITY WINTER LANDSCAPE:

This winter drawing OR painting has some added depth in the sky because the swirl lines were traced with an extra layer of blue. No colors? Practice you

(b) Winter Solstice-scape: If Christmas is a magical time of the year, then why not think outside of the box, and imagine a tree in a really unusual place? Trees in homes can be really pretty, of course, but a tree in the middle of nowhere starts to tell story. Who put it there? Is it for people who live there, or just come and visit? Who are the presents for? Is there going to be a party?

Lastly, when it comes to coloring your drawing, here’s a tip that will keep your snow looking white and fresh. All it takes is to NOT draw the little circles with a black marker. Just stop when you’re done tracing the tree and mountains, put down the black marker, and draw the snow circles with the sky blue color. Afterwards, fill in the background and you will have some very pretty and soft looking snow.

(c,) WINTER LANDSCAPE

Winter landscape drawing projects needn’t be complicated and involve lots of fancy supplies. This one is pretty simple, focuses on silhouettes of trees on a moon lite night, and can be made with just a couple of crayons and a black marker.

This drawing would also make an excellent example of one of the Principles of Design — Contrast. The black trees that cast a shadow against the white snow, are so much more striking than say brown trees against green grass. It’s a great way for students to learn how much impact contrast can have in their work.

(d.) DRAW A BEAR WITH A SCARF: Just because it’s easy and adds some per-

sonality to a cute winter portrait. Change it up and get creative. Add color of you can.

(e) EASY SNOWMAN:

A different point of view than a regular snowman drawing.

Snowman drawings don’t have to always be saved as simple beginner pro-jects. You know, the ones that start with three circles, are centered on the middle of the page, and have the usual arms, hat and face.

Who says you can’t get closer to them? Like drawing just a close up of the head and face? And maybe not centered, but tilted a bit to give him or her more life?

This easy snowman tutorial does just that, and adds a little extra fun at the end with a cute bird too. It only takes a few changes to make a drawing that looks like it has much more of a story to it.