4th Grade 'Get Active' Figures

4th graders conveyed their own point of view of the best way to get active through a figure silhouette painting.

Students estimated how tall the average human figure was in heads and then checked their estimates by measuring a partner 

Students practiced gesture drawings to draw the human figure. Then they were able to choose whether to base their pose off a wooden mannequin, a picture of a figure or a student model posing.

Then students discovered that artists use lines, colors and  shapes to communicate meaning. They then created a oil pastel resist watercolor painting using lines, shapes, colors and paktterms to convey a mood that describes how they feel when they get active.

Students decided whether to use the positive or negative space of a silhouette figure cut out to use on top of their paintings.