Henna Hands Project...

 the Elements of Art: Line

India Traditional Bridal Henna 

While body adornment dates back over 5,000 years, it's generally used today to express luck and happiness, and is often featured at ceremonial events like weddings and births. If you attend a traditional Indian wedding, henna will almost always be a part of the celebrations. Henna paste is made from a powder derived from the henna plant. It has been used for centuries as a natural dye for hair and nails as well. The temporary dye is now most  used as part of the Indian marriage celebration.

 

Photo Credit: Amit Dave/Reuters

 

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Lesson 4. Design Hands

Step 1. Using a pencil, trace around your hand and part of your wrist and arm.

 

Step 2.  Turn our paper once to a different side. Using a pencil, trace around your hand and

part of your wrist and arm again. This hand will over-lap the first hand.

 

Step 3. Turn our paper once to a different side.Using a pencil, trace around your hand and part of your wrist and arm again. 

This hand will overlap the first two hands.

 

 

Step 4. Outline all your hands with a sharpie or black marker or pen. This may get confusing with all the overlapping 

hands so go slow and take your time.

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Step 5. Using a sharpie create the henna designs inside your hands. Remember that

when ever you come to a line you need to change your design.

 

Step 5. You will be using markers for this project. Pick out several markers for your color pallet. Your pallet can be either cool or....warm.

or warm...

 

Step 6. Pick your first color and make sever dots on the page.

 

 

Step 7. Now pick your next colors and continue circling the dot until all of the negative space is full. The negative space is anywhere the hands are not. 

Remember the hands will stay black and white, only the background has color.

 

Fall Leaf in Warm and Cool...

3rd Grade Warm Cool Fall Leaves...

Sunset on the Gulf...

So just getting back from my beach vacation this past Christmas I wanted to do a sunset theme painting because that is just what we do on the island every night, watch the sunset!

So the first step is to use watered down black tempera paint for the black lines.

Then allow that to dry.

We discussed warm and cool colors and value changes.

I showed students how adding more or less water to their brushes changes the colors 

from more intense with less water to washed out with lots of water. 

We also worked in layering the same color to add changes in value. 

The last step is to go back and add designs on top of the work using a darker or lighter value of the same color.

5th Grade Value Change and Warm/Cool Colors ...

Value change hearts. Students get 2 colors and a little black and white to create their hearts.

On a 12x12 sheet of 90# white paper draw a large heart using a pencil

Using a ruler or straight edge draw vertical lines across the paper.

Then draw horizontal lines across the paper.

Now you can start painting the heart.

Choose either a warm or cool color for the heart. Then the other color group will be selected from for the back ground.

You could also use a  complimentary color arrangement. 

After students paint the heart then they can start on the background.

During class we ran out of paper towels so our wonderful janitor Mr. Le brought us some more. He gave one of my awesome kiddos the old paper roll. I love my job!!!