I got the idea of mood paintings from an article in School Arts. The first day we created a list of moods A-Z and then discussed if we could experience different moods in one day. Then I asked my fifth graders what kind of line they would use to express _________ ( anger, happiness, crazy, etc). I played some inspirational music ( mainly Enya and George Winston) and students then did 4 thumbnail drawings and chose their favorite to enlarge. I then premixed colors so students could just focus on painting rather than mixing colors. Here are the results:
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