For Hispanic Heritage Month I chose to do a project focusing on Amate Bark Paintings. This worked out well because we had limited supplies and the brown food store bags worked great for the faux wood backgrounds. The paper bags were painted with black ink and ironed with wax paper to give the appearance of the traditional Amate Bark Paintings. Next the students got to work by choosing their animals and drawing their scenes in chalk on the brown paper so that it could be seen easily. I supplied them with visuals of animals such as lizards, alligators, and parrots.
Once the students drew their animals they were able to start painting. I talked to the students about color schemes and balancing their colors. To help the students to remember to plan out and balance their colors, I gave each table once color of paint at a time. This forced them to use that color, check if it was evenly balanced throughout their drawing before they moved on. The results were stunning!!
The next part of the lesson was in outlining, thin vs. thick and stylized vs. realistic art. THe students were given thin and thick permanent markers and did very well with this.
THe last step was mounting the work and creating a border. We talked about how a border is similar to a picture frame.. it frames your work!
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