Warm & Cool Colors Handprint Pattern Watercolor & Crayon Resist Painting

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Date: 2013-01-03 Author: Michelle East Categories: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, Art Lessons, Color Contrast, Color Theory, Drawing Lessons, Elementary Art, Mixed Media Lessons, Painting Lessons, Watercolor Lessons, Watercolor Resist Tags: 2nd grade art, 3rd grade art, 4th grade art, 5th Grade Art, art, art class for kids, art lesson, art lessons for kids, art projects, art projects children, art projects for, artist painting supplies, Color, Crayon, cross-curriculum lesson, cross-curriculum lesson with science and art, Education, elementary art, for elementary, India, kids art lessons, kids school art projects, mixed media, Oil & water don't mix, paint, painting art projects for kids, painting lesson, pattern lesson, principles of art, repetition, rhythm in art, rhythm in music, rhythm in poetry, Teach the principles of art, teacher art projects for kids, teaching art to kids, Teaching the principles of art, Visual Arts, warm and cool colors, Watercolor, Watercolor and crayon resist paintings, watercolor painting lesson, watercolor resist

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Warm & Cool Colors Handprint Pattern Watercolor & Crayon Resist Painting2nd-5th Grade Art Handprint Pattern (Rhythm) Crayon & Watercolor Resist

Teaching the principles of art to elementary students can sometimes be a challenge, especially the younger students. Coupling the lesson with examples of rhythm in music and rhythm in poetry helps make audible connections to the concept. So when presenting a lesson on pattern, repetition, and rhythm find good music & poetry examples to begin the lesson with. I had them practice making patterns. We also learned about warm and cool colors in this lesson.

Hand Print Pattern Crayon Resist

Who doesn’t love watching the “magic” happen when you paint watercolors over crayons! I LOVE it-

Watercolor and crayon resist paintings are among my favorite art projects! It is also a good cross-curriculum lesson with Science and Art. Oil & water don’t mix and we see a perfect visual example of this when we paint watercolors over the crayons. This is a fun mixed-media lesson!!

Supplies: pencils, 12×18″ Tagboard, crayons or oil pastels (in warm colors), Watercolor paints, brushes, Optional: Basic Watercolor Techniques Lesson & Worksheet, Color Wheel Worksheet or Warm & Cool colors Worksheet

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## Warm & Cool Color Worksheet

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Instructions:

Have children trace their hands 5-7 times in pencil on a sheet of 12×18″ tag-board or watercolor paper. Younger kids may need help, I encouraged them to do it on their own, but if they really needed help then they could ask their partner to draw only one or two hands.

Outline Hands 5-7 times on a 12×18″ piece of tag-board 2. Students trace all their hands in different warm colored crayons (red, orange, yellow & intermediate colors too). Make sure they are drawing THICK lines-this helps in the resist process. 3. Next, draw patterns using only warm colored crayons. Encourage them to make a new pattern in each hand.

Draw different patterns in each hand using WARM colors.

Handprint with Warm Color Pattern

There are many options to the next part. I am including pictures of samples I have made experimenting with different backgrounds. The important part is to incorporate the COOL colors into the background somehow. Cool colors are green, blue, & purple (with their intermediate colors). The black background is India Ink.