Students draw and paint a bright, beautiful
sunflower using pencils, pens and water colors.
Lesson teaches how to paint with water colors;
how to hold the brush and paint with the tip of the brush, how
much paint to use on the brush and how to control it and how
to blend and layer colors.
Castle
Running time 32 minutes
Works well as two sessions - students draw with video & can
color on their own.
Teaches how to draw a castle i.e.; perspective top & bottom,
near & far.
Teaches about castles i.e.; the uses and purposes of various
wall and towers, how inside the castle could include an entire
town.
Children are encouraged to draw and color any imaginative
background they like.
Hyacinths
Running time 37 minutes
Painting with watercolors - Placing flowers freely on the paper.
Watercolor techniques i.e.; creating light and dark shades of
color on flowers and leaves, painting one color next to another.
Visualizing and creating one flower behind another.
Poinsettia
Running time
35 minutes
Teaches the basis
of painting with watercolors while designing a beautiful red
flower.
Tells
of the Mexican legend of the Poinsettia (a Christmas legend).
Teddy Bear
Running time 36
minutes
Students use
pencils to sketch a standing bear.
Students are
encouraged to draw a fun outfit on him/her and something for
him to hold, for example, the bear might be wearing a soccer
outfit and holding a soccer ball. Many examples are shown
along with examples of backgrounds should they choose to add
one.
Students
complete their drawing with pens and crayons or colored
pencils.
Lesson teaches
proportion, symmetry and sketching circles and ovals.
Tiger Face
Running time 51 minutes
Teaches children how to draw the head and face of a tiger and
color it realistically using crayons and fine line markers (of
black crayons).
Endangered species discussion - tigers, their characteristics
and habitats.
Ukrainian Eggs
Running time 35 minutes
Children design an egg with colored markers on a background
created with colored chalk and may use the traditional Ukrainian
patterns, symbols and colors which are presented in the lesson.
Discussion of the Ukrainian tradition of coloring and giving
beautiful eggs to each other at Easter time.
Also included is a brief discussion of Faberge’ eggs.
