Tint and shade art lesson

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!

Monochromatic study with tape or masking fluid - base off of a photo of an object that they need to identify four shades

Sixth graders painted landscapes that have atmospheric perspective using three tints, pure color and a shade. I got this project idea from this blog: New Hope Art Gallery. Here are some of the results.

tint tone shade painting

For some reason I find it easiest to teach value by going paint, then crayon, then colored pencil then graphite. So we start with paint. Official definition of Value (tone, tint, shade...) "refers to the use of light and dark, shade and highlight, in an artwork." Middle school definition of value..."this is hard, why do we have to do this....I want to do something fun!" Ah teaching value at a more advanced level can be a pain in the butt. I find younger students are perfectly happy to learn…

This is a lesson that I have seen many different places. I decided to try it out on third graders to continue on with color theory. This was a two day lesson. On day one we discussed these terms: Tints=Color + White Shades=Color + Black Value=One color going light to dark Together students drew four ice creams scoops. They then watched me create color tints using white and my chosen color. I stressed the importance of each color looking different. Students experimented with mixing colors and…

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