Art for Gorillas

Category: Art of Conservation (AoC) | Date: Jun 03 2009 | By: Julie

Susan L., thank you for your May 5th donation of $93.50! Your generosity is greatly appreciated from all of us at AoC.

In the Art for Gorillas blog, I’ve been covering many of the activities that our project is undertaking but have neglected to tell you about our recent art lessons in color theory. Briefly, here’s a look at our last few weeks of classes where we’ve focused on practicing color with the students, and in training teachers in art as well.

We insist, or at least we strongly suggest, that each AoC class session is attended be one or more regular classroom teacher as our way of making our project efforts sustainable. Ideally these teachers will improve and expand upon our curricula in next years’ classes as AoC forges ahead to other schools. Two classroom teachers are busy experimenting with primary, secondary, and intermediate colors in the photograph above.

Following primary, secondary, and intermediate color studies, we continue using gouache and move to a lesson on tint, shade, value, and skin tones.

Above, students concentrating on the lesson of the day.

Class ended with the distribution of AoC t-shirts to every student.

Teachers in training were quite pleased as well!

Thank you again to Sue L. for your support!