OCAF YAM Show 2016

Friday the 26th of February was the opening of the Oconee County Cultural Arts Foundation's Youth Art Month show.  It was a great reception, and the kids were all really excited to see their art on display.
Here are some proud students with their work.

Kindergarten overlapping shapes

The kindergarten took inspiration from the artist Abdulmari Imao beautiful ocean scenes with overlapping shapes. 

After drawing the seaweed and fish step by step the students added colors with plasti-pastels. Finally they made a wax resist with water colors on top of their drawing.

Self Portraits in Tints and Shades

The second grade has been learning about self portraits, tint, and shades of color. They began by learning how to draw a self portrait in profile.

Once the sketch was finished they made a value scale to learn how to make colors lighter and darker.

They were able to take what they learned about tints and shades and apply that to their self portrait.

Next the students made ice cream cones with ice cream that is painted in tints of one color. 

Finally the students put everything together.