Monochromatic art for kids

To “take it up a notch,” you can instruct the students to add patterns, designs, or doodles, in each of the spaces using different variations of the assigned colors. To do this, you need to make available different shades and/or different media (i.e., crayons, colored pencils, markers) of the assigned colors. The kids then have the fun and creative task of filling in the spaces however they please!

To kick off the new school year all the kiddos (k-5) are making these awesome monochromatic self-portraits. Once they are all finished I am going to hang them together in rainbow order (ROY G. BIV)...

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This project turned out better than I hoped. A few weeks ago, I had the kids paint 4 sheets of paper with dark-light versions of a color. ...

Let's be honest. You almost didn't read this post. The name for this project is terrible. Monochromatic Scenes in Silhouette? Hardly rolls off the tongue, and kids will look at you oddly when you say it. Even though I wanted to call these landscape/seascape/cityscape/ or-sky-only paintings simply scapes, to ease matters, I couldn't. Because scapes are a whole other thing, and here in Vermont, kids actually know what they are. Garlic scape. Obviously. And the kids would wonder, why are we…

Monochromatic from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo .

This handout is designed to give students practice with mixing a monochromatic value scale and applying it in a composition. It also introduces the idea of atmospheric perspective as the background has lighter values than the foreground. This is a great activity for beginning painting students who a...