Draw a two-inch square. On this lay tablets the inch square in the center, with semicircles about it. Draw around it. Draw around the semicircles. Paint the shape with water. Drop in the fresh colors and let the water blend them. Finish with the dark edge. In the two bright circles of color, point out the six rainbow colors: yellow, orange, red, violet, blue, green. Find in the circles the color that is between yellow and orange. These two colors are Find blended in one, named yellow-orange. the color between red and orange. What two colors are blended in red-orange? Find the color between red and violet, named red-violet. Why? Find blue-violet. Find blue-green. What two colors blend to make yellow-green? Find it in the circles. How of these colors are in your many stained glass window? Paint another window, and watch the colors come. Draw or paint a picture of the animal you know best. Draw or paint a row of these shapes, all just alike. Take pictures of your animal as it looks when it stands; sits up; lies down; walks or runs. Make rows of these shapes. Which row would you like best for a border on your book cover? Look at the shapes on these book covers. In the borders you have made, the shapes have always faced the same way. Do these? Place two sweet-peas, daffodils, or other flowers, as the grasses are placed. Choose those that seem to look toward each other. Place shapes of animals in the same way. This is a good pattern for a floor of wood, or for oil-cloth to cover a floor. You may draw it for On an eight-inch square of paper draw sixteen two-inch squares. In the center of each, lay an inch tablet. Draw around it. With the pencil, color the squares like the squares in the picture. |