Fall leaves

When my family moved to Canada, Calgary greeted us with gray-brown colors because of the early autumn frosts, but the sky was beautiful and unusually colorful for us. We had never seen such colours of clouds, sunrises and sunset anywhere else. We were told that it is because of the mountains. Well, if it is not possible to enjoy colours on the ground, we will admire the sky.

However, the autumn makes us happy  last few years with the weather and a variety of colours. It is simply necessary for me to use such a luxury.







The groups of different age have different tasks.


The youngest children learn how to make spots and  mix colours, this is introduction to colour theory. As a result they have green, orange and purple colors on the picture, instead of just red, yellow and blue that they have on the palette.

6-9 years old group of children are solving other problems.What background is best to choose and why , how to arrange the leaves. If the leaves have the sky as a background, they are on a branch or the wind picked up and they are free of whirling ?

The oldest of my students know and understand a lot.  They need to find the contour of object, better tone to show it in 3D . They need to make a decision about the tone of the background to push up the object. Graphite pencil is grey. Boring... no! Let's add some colour! Construction paper is perfect! We steel learn about negative areas, tones and lines, but new cheerful and bright way!.

 








The other pictures of my students you can see in the Gallery.
Alla Kireyeva