This week almost everyone completed their winter collages. This has been a great project. Each mini lesson provided learning opportunities and a lot of fun. I loved seeing it all come together. Students had to make decisions on the placement of the elements of the their landscapes. Some added extra details and created a story […]
This week we finished drawing and began to color our forest animals. We talked about layering colors and varying pressure to achieve rich colors with colored pencils. These are really turning out great! I can wait to see our winter collage come together next week. For those that finished early, we learned how to cut […]
This week we painted a winter landscape which will be the background for our collage next week. We also drew forest animals to populate our winter scenes. Before we began our final drawings, I had students do a drawing exercise. I passed out reference pictures of the type of animals found in a winter forest […]
After a long winter break, we are back to work at Corbie Arts. Our first project is actually going to be several “mini lessons” that will culminate in a winter collage. We began by reading Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner, illlustrated by Christopher Silas Neal. In this book, we follow a young girl […]
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