Rainbows

Mindfulness

Sit in a quiet place in an upright, but relaxed postion. Close your eyes and imagine all of the sounds you hear, are colors swirling around you. The colors are calming you and and flowing through you, bringing you energy and light.

Robert S. Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow, 1859, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leonard and Paula Granof 1983.95.160

See Think Wonder

What do you see in the picture? What do you think is happening and what was the artist trying to tell you with this picture? What does this picture make you wonder about?

Robert Seldon Duncanson was America’s best known African American painter in the years surrounding the Civil War. Based in Cincinnati, he was supported by abolitionists who bought his paintings and sponsored his trip to Europe to study from the Old Masters.

Story Time: Stories and music

Assignment 1: Draw your own rainbow

Draw your own Rainbow

For this project draw a rainbow. Like in the story A Rainbow of My Own, your rainbow can move and twist or be a whole circle. When you are done drawing your rainbow. Add a picture of yourself playing with your rainbow.

Assignment 2: Found object color wheel

Color Wheel

A color wheel shows the relationship between the colors click on the picture on the right for more information.

Using objects: toys, clothes and more, create your own color wheel.

Vocabulary

specturm

color

rainbow

Why These projects?

Through color wheel building students will reinforce the concept of whole/part relationships. They will also learn to see variation and making choices when creating an art project.

A rainbow is not only and artistic concept, but one of both nature and science. The colors of the rainbow are fixed and always follow the same order. We are learning the rainbow order as ROY G. BIV: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Learning the rainbow colors in order will help us when it comes time to mix colors.

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