Painting

Emotion Painting (4th grade): First we went through and practiced different types of painting. We did gradient wash, flat wash, crayon resist, blotting, sgraffitto, and wet on wet techniques. They would show us how to do each technique first and then we would do it ourselves. After doing all the techniques they read us a story about how everyone has a different view of art and how music can inspire us to create art. After reading the book we started our project. For our project, there were four different squares and we listened to four different songs. For each song, we had to think about how it made us feel and then paint how we felt. We were required to use at least two of the different techniques we learned earlier on in the lesson. This was a really fun way to express ourselves through art. It was fun to see how everyone felt during each of the songs and how everyone painted something different.

Extension Activity: Instead of playing music and having the students paint what they are feeling, I could use this project to help students think about how a character feels in a story. I could read the story to the students and then have them pick out one part of the story. I would then have them paint what they think the character was feeling during that part of the story. Then they could write about what they painted on the back of the paper.