1st grade

Sailboats at Sunset The OBJECTIVES are to:Mixing and blending paint, creating texture, cutting shapes,understanding perspective.

Materials

white paper- 12x18liquid tempera paints

red, yellow, blue greenwide paint brushespaint palletsjar with waterpatterned paper scraps (bottom of closet)scissorsglue

Class Periods - 1

Make sure the students put their name and date on every project!

Painting the sunset and ocean

STEP 1

Paper should be in horizontal format.

Start with the yellow paint and brush a line across the middle of the paper.

This becomes the horizon line.

To paint the sunset - Mix a bit of yellow paint with the red,

blend the colors directly onto the paper.

Encourage long, sweeping strokes - sweep across the page

It’s okay to see the brush strokes a bit

The paint should not be completely blended - should be able to see bits of yellow coming

through.

Should end up with an orangey sunset - watch them with the amount of red!

STEP 2

Apply blue paint mixed with green to the paper.

Work quickly so the paint is still wet when you add texture.

Use plastic forks to create the waves.

Drag the fork across the page in a wavy motion.

This scrapes away the paint to expose the white of the paper.

Make sure not to wait too long before scraping

Encourage the kids not to dump too much paint on the paper! Or you’ll have a real

mess!

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Cutting out the sailboats

STEP 1

Cut out the sailboat from the patterned paper.

Explain what a trapezoid is

showed them how to take a rectangle and then cut away the ends to make a

trapezoid.

This becomes the hull (or body) of the boat.

Demonstrate how to cut two sails with one bigger than the other.

If the kids cut their sails too small, encourage them to keep them.

They just started another boat!

Encouraged the kids to make at least one large sailboat but two are fine.

If one is smaller; even better.

This gives you the opportunity to demonstrate perspective (large sailboat close to the bottom

of the page, small sailboat towards the top).

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SKYnotice the brush strokespaint not completely blendedsee bits of yellow coming through

WATERpaint needs to be wet to add texture

trapezoid

PERSPECTIVE

large boats should be glued closer to the bottom of your paper

(They appear to be closer to you than the smaller boat.)

smaller boats should be glued closer to the horizon line.

vocabulary• horizon line - A level line where water or land seems to end and the sky begins.

• Shape - the outward outline of a form. Basic shapes include circles, squares and triangles

• Texture - An element of art, texture is the surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc.

• trapezoid - A shape that has four sides - with one pair of opposite sides parallel, but the other two are not parallel.

• perspective - The technique artists use to project an illusion of the three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface. Perspective helps to create a sense of depth — of receding space. Fundamental techniques used to achieve perspective are: controlling variation between sizes of depicted subjects, overlapping some of them, and placing those that are on the depicted ground as lower when nearer and higher when deeper. In addition, there are three major types of perspective: aerial perspective, herringbone perspective, and linear perspective.