Lessons in the Arts
for the Elementary School Years
Contents
Drawing and Shading with Color Crayon 1
Beginning with Archetypal Forms 3
Trees 5
The Frog Prince 6
Simple Shapes for People 7
Mother Holle 9
The Shaded Drawing Technique with Crayon 10
The Firebird 13
Block and Stick Crayons: Hansel and Grethel 15
Using the White of the Paper or Negative Space 16
Beginning Water Color Painting 18
Materials Needed 20
The Wet-on-Wet Method 21
Beginning with Goethe's Primal Colors of Yellow and Blue 22
Variations on a Theme 25
A New Color Comes into Being 27
Some Negative Space in Blue 28
Red and Yellow Appear on the Stage 29
Giving Movement to Paintings Using Gesture Motifs 30
Red and Yellow; Red and Blue 34
Painting Themes from Fairy Tales 35
The Seven Ravens 38
Appendix: Lesson Plans for a Two Week Block 39