Sept 15-Oct 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month. We started this project with a book. Friday Kahlo by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Gee Fan Eng. The book spoke about her life and the struggles that she endured. Through the book we learn that Art is what helped Frida through these struggles. We also learned that she loved to do Self-portraits but also that she loved to paint still lives. Each table had a mini still life of various fruits and veggies. We then took oil pastels and created our drawings. We spoke about using color to make them more realistic, but also how it is fun to use our imagination to add color to our still life. Students were to use a lot of pressure when drawing in order to create good solid color. We then took a white oil pastel and created patterns and designs on the background. The following class we utilized watercolor to fill in the background. We discussed a little science when we talked about how oil (oil pastel) and water (watercolor paint) will not mix because they do not like each other. That is how the magic is created when they paint over the white patterns on their background and their designs magically appear.
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