Fall Frames

This was a great project my co-op art classes did this week and last. I got the process from artprojectsforkids.org. We worked on fall themes, but a few students were fast enough to go on to a second design, and they started on winter themes. (See last two pictures.) Everyone had a successful project on this one, as you can see by the examples above. They all turned out so well! Daughter M's is the first one.

We reviewed the color wheel before we started this project. We discussed primary, secondary, tertiary, analogous, complimentary and monochromatic colors.
I helped them draw the frame around the edge of the paper, then draw a vertical line about 1/3 of the way over. This skinnier frame was divided horizontally about 1/3 from the top or bottom, and then the wider vertical frame was divided horizontally about 1/3 up or down from the skinny division's horizontal line. (See pictures.) This made four frames to fill with large simple designs in the theme of fall or thanksgiving. Let them draw one design in each frame. Emphasize that they want to make large simple designs without many details. We outlined all pencil lines in black sharpie markers then colored in with oil pastels for beautiful saturated colors. I had seasonal stamps and pictures (ads from the paper work well) for reference ideas.