We're focusing our last Art Unit on our beloved Planet. Earth Day, Arbor Day, and May Day all of which roll up to keeping our world clean, planting trees and celebrating seasonal changes.
I started by talking about cloudscapes, landscapes and seascapes: all of which traditionally have a horizontal format. For a mixed media cloudscape we taped paper to the back of a board and propped it at a slight angle. One loaded paint brush stroke across the top of the paper has extra water on the bottom edge of the line. That's the part that the next brush stroke needs to be touching in order for it to all blend together and create subtle gradations and transitions.
We created clouds using pastel on the dry watercolor, mostly creating fluffy top edges and blending them with our fingers for darker shadows on the bottom. Two techniques in two days created heavenly results.
As a bonus science portion of our lesson, we created tactile cloud charts with cotton balls and feathers. Students labeled their clouds in Braille or Large Print. Score a point for cross-curriculum lessons and kids with visual impairments learning through hands-on learning.
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