Grade 5 students were introduced to the work of Wayne Thiebaud in art this week. They were then challenged to recreate the colours in Three Machines using only red, blue and yellow!
They learned about the primary, secondary and tertiary colours. A highlight was finding out that the 'paint' really was icing sugar and that the end of class collaborative project could be eaten!
Students were pleased with the results. One keen student even mixed a neutral colour very, very close to black! White was the only colour we didn't create.
Fun times in Grade 5!
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| Recreating 'Three Machines' |
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| It was so much fun to see students guessing what the colours would make! |
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| Students were challenged to mix new colours with the left over 'paint'. After sharing and naming the new colours, they discovered that mixing many colours made muddy colours. They learned that these are called neutrals. There were some very interesting names created for our new colours! |
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| The pallets were a work of art too! |
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| But eating the art was the most fun of all! |
