Shades of Green Trees
We've already started winter-based projects and I'll be posting more soon. This one was done by our 2/3 class to practice mixing shades of color. It was done over two lessons.
We reviewed blue + yellow = green, how there are many shades of green and how to mix them in a tray with watercolors. Students drew 3 or more simple shapes for trees and outlined them in black crayon. Keeping the tree shapes simple kept them focused on the color mixing rather than the tree drawing. They mixed up at least three different greens for the trees and added blue skies. I think they did a great job with the colors. If they were done early they could add cut snowflakes to their paintings. Click on any image below to get to the picture gallery.
