Flowers with lady bugs.

Flowers with lady bugs. As an elementary visual-art teacher, I discovered some years agothat concentric Coming from the center, or circles within circles. For example, tracks on a hard disk are concentric. Tracks on optical media are concentric or spiral shaped (in a coil) depending on the type. circles can offer young students an instant success increating attractive designs. Concentric circles are circles that have acommon center, like the waves that occur when a rock is thrown in water. Kindergarten students produced the works shown here. Before thislesson, I had the class draw and color a single flower (Bot.) a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose.See also: Single . We called them"nail flowers" because of the short lines with the dots at theend, which surround the flower petals. As this exercise with the single flower was so successful, anextension project was created using two flowers and ladybugs. Studentswere instructed to begin by drawing a frame around their paper. Theframe gives students clearer boundaries, which they like. It also helpsto keep stray marks off the desks or tabletops. After the frame, students drew a zigzag line across the bottom ofthe paper for the grass. They then drew two sets of concentric circles,which looked like two donuts donuts - (Obsolete) A collective noun for any set of memory bits. This usage is extremely archaic and may no longer be live jargon; it dates from the days of ferrite core memories in which each bit was implemented by a doughnut-shaped magnetic flip-flop. . From the donuts, students created theabstract "nail flowers." Before they could color their picture, I asked them to include atleast five ladybugs in their pictures. Art can be so contagious,especially with the primary students. As you can see by the finishedwork, the ladybugs showed up all over their pictures. Many bugs evenescaped outside the flame and some just flew away. The drawing was done on 9" x 12" drawing paper usinglarge blue permanent markers. In a previous lesson, I had shown thestudents they could make lines of three different widths, depending onhow they held the marker. The pictures were colored with watercolormarkers and some highlighter high��light��er?n.1. A usually fluorescent marker used to mark important passages of text.2. A cosmetic for emphasizing areas of the face, such as the eyes or cheekbones. pens. In our discussion about coloring, we talked about the colors in thesky and all the different colors a sky could be, and that because theflowers were imaginary they could be any color. We also talked about howa repeated pattern around the flower would create interesting effects. By using the concentric circles, frame and cute little ladybugs,every student had a successful picture. These young artists, who wereonly 5 or 6 years old at the time they made the pictures, now have theconfidence to feel that they can be successful at visual art. This newlyadded confidence translates into excited, eager little pupils when theyreturn to my art class for a new lesson. MATERIALS * White 9" x 12" drawing paper * Permanent black felt-tip markers or pens (both regular andextra-fine tip) * Crayons, colored markers and colored pencils LEARNING OBJECTIVES Students will ... * improve their drawing and design ability. * understand the element of line by drawing curved, straight andlooped lines. * learn that color (hue) is how your eyes see light. * share what they liked and learned from the project. Mary McNamara Mulkey is a Visual Art Specialist for DieringerSchool District in Sumner, Washington Sumner is a city in Pierce County, Washington, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 8,504. HistorySumner was named after Senator Charles Sumner (6 January 1811 – 11 March 1874), and officially incorporated on February 7, 1891. . Susanne Malm n. 1. A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk. is a free-lancewriter.