Color Experiments

First graders have been exploring the elements of art.  For this project we focused on form and texture.  We began by learning how to draw forms (things that appear three dimensional).  Students drew three forms that resembles glass beakers and containers that might be used by scientists. Next we did a little color experimenting of our own inside these drawings.  Using the wet on wet watercolor technique students applied dots of two primary colors of watercolor onto their bottles which they had already painted with water.  The dots spread out on their own and the colors magically mixed to produce secondary colors; orange, green, and purple.  Finally, we observed photographs of bubbles, noting their characteristics- like circle shapes, transparency, rainbow colors....We then used this information to assist us in drawing our own realistic looking bubbles using construction paper crayons on black paper.  Last but not least we cut out our bottles and glued them to our bubbly creations!