Tints and shades art lesson elementary

Students in all grades are revisiting color mixing. They are reviewing the color wheel and the three main color groups: primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. After mastering the color wheel,...

My sixth graders in Beginning Art have been working hard at this particular Tint & Shade project. It was there first time working with acrylic paints and I normally don’t tackle acrylic p…

Students learned how to take a hue and mix tints and shades for their background blending as they went. Then they designed a silhouette to add to their background. They are all different and...

This lesson was inspired by the leaf paintings featured here at Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School. My grade 4 students created ...

My 5th graders are using tints, tones and shades to create a Monochromatic painting - using one color that changes value (light and dark)

Today, 2nd grade embarked on a new project! New to me and certainly new to them! I saw this awesome idea on Abby Schukei's blog, Art, Eat, Tie Dye, Repeat and decided to give it a go! Here's how we created ours! Materials: 90lb 6x18" paper 6x18" Tru Ray construction paper Crayola oil pastels Fiskar scissors Pencils Big Kid's Choice flat paintbrushes Crayola Artista II tempera paint Day 1: Talk about the Element of Art, VALUE! Value is super duper important, y'all! Value is the lights and…

Fun hands-on art lesson for early elementary children on tints and shades in 45 minutes for Kindergarten, 1st, & 2nd grade-level children - Book suggestions - Use with your class, homeschool, after-school program, or co-op!

Students learned how to mix tints (a color + white) and shades (a color + black) then used this skill to create an atmospheric landscape with tempera on paper.

In Mrs. Johnson’s Art Room, 3rd Graders are learning all about tints and shades in preparation for a painting project. We learned that a tint is created when you add white to a color to make …