Second Grade Value Night Scene

   In Second Grade, we finished discussing two things that can be seen in many artworks, value and silhouettes.  We learned about silhouettes, shadows of objects without any inside details, and took time to draw four of our own silhouettes for practice.  We also watched this video where a dance group uses their shadows to create different figures.









   Students were then introduced to the concept of value and how artists make value scales.  We used both charcoal and pencil to create a value scale (one for charcoal, one pencil).  Students then applied their knowledge of value to create a night sky, looking something like these:

We created our different value areas by drawing concentric circles, allowing for them a space to put their round value scale.

After our background was done, we learned about how we can use silhouettes to draw a tree.  A tree silhouette was drawn on top of the value sky.

   Here are some final results:

Second Grade Value Moon

Second Graders are working on discussing value scales and silhouettes.  We watched a pretty cool YouTube video that showed a dance group who projected their silhouettes onto a screen.  The kids really enjoyed watching it.

They had the opportunity to work in charcoal on this project, which they loved.  We practiced by creating value scales, a range of shading that goes from dark to light, and we then created some branch silhouette drawings.