BrackettArts!

I am very excited to be featuring the art program of Brackett School via the World Wide Web. I think this will be a wonderful opportunity for the Brackett community, the Arlington community and the art education world at large to take a peek inside our walls and be a source of support and feedback. I hope to use this site as a way of showcasing our student's work, explaining our curriculum, posting regular updates, promoting arts education awareness and making our program more visible.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Grade One: Warm and Cool Colors

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To introduce a unit on color, first graders discussed the difference between "warm" colors (red, yellow, orange) and "cool" colors (blue, green, purple). Students were able to see how an artist depicting a warm place such as Georgia O'Keeffe's, Red Hills and Bones, and cool places such as Claude Monet's, Waterlilies, can be emphasized using these groups of colors. They also noticed that we associate certain warm or cool things, such as fire and water, with their colors, which help us to distinguish these colors even more.

Students were then asked to create an oil pastel drawing using their own subject matter in either warm or cool colors. While it was fine to use other colors as well, students had to decide whether to use mostly warm or cool colors.