Students
draw and paint a barn in an autumn landscape
using pencils, pens, and watercolors.
Teaches
perspective for the barn and the background.
Shows
how to represent foliage on trees and bushes.
Demonstrates
a watercolor wash for the sky and blending colors
to create beautiful fall foliage.
Clipper Ship
Running time 51 minutes
Students draw with the video and color in another
session on their own.
Teaches how to draw a square rigged clipper ship.
Discusses the clipper ship’s special place in history
including the China tea trade and the California
gold rush.
Encourages children to create an imaginative background.
Dolphins
Running time 48 minutes
Works
well as two sessions; students draw with the video,
color on their own
Discussion of dolphins and their wonderful characteristics,
as well as the threats to them and possible solutions.
Drawing
dolphins and their underwater habitat including
coral, kelp, sea fans and fish.
Coloring
with crayons or colored pencils, blending the blues
of the ocean so the lightest color is at the top
(where sunshine would make the ocean appear lighter).
Dragon
Running time 38 minutes
Works
well as two sessions - students draw with video
& can color on their own.
A
fantasy drawing - Teaches blending colors with crayons,
perspective in landscape, shading for distant objects
and drawing and coloring clouds.
Encourages kids to use their imagination for the
dragon and in creating wonderful backgrounds.
Elephant
Running time 44 minutes
Works
well as two sessions - students draw with video
& can color on their own.
Teaches how to draw and elephant.
Tips
on blending color with crayons and background perspective
discussion.
Endangered species discussion - Elephants and their
habitat and characteristics.
Fresh
Water Angel Fish
Running
time 49 minutes
Level of ability - 3
Students draw and paint an Angel
Fish in a simple underwater scene using pencils,
pens and water colors.
Lesson teaches many basic facts about
fresh water angel fish and the environments in which
they live.
Lesson reviews how to paint with
water colors, how to blend and layer colors and
how to mix a light blue for the background.
Lighthouse
Running time 51 minutes
Works
well as two sessions - students draw with video,
paint the background with the video and continue
painting on their own.
Teaches children to draw a lighthouse on a hill
or cliff and finish their drawings with black fine
line pens.
They
paint the scene with a watercolor wash for the sky,
creating a stormy dramatic look.
Discussion of lighthouses - their history, purpose
and workings.
Pansy
Running time 54 minutes
Students
draw and color a lovely pansy using pencils, pens
and water colors or colored markers.
Students learn to begin with a circle for the basic
shape and gradually change it into the fine curving
petals radiating from the center as well as the
pretty leaves and ruffled edges that represent the
soft texture of the petals.
The
pansy demonstrated in the lesson is painted with
water colors and there are many samples shown of
pansies in both water colors and colored markers.
Still Life w/Pitcher & Cake
Running time 51 minutes
Works
well as two sessions - students draw with video
& can color on their own.
Teaches
perspective and overlapping.
A
fun drawing with pencil and fine line pen of various
things sitting on a table.
Children
add more things to the table if they want to, design
any background they like and color their picture
with any medium they choose.
Sunset Moth
Running time 49 minutes
Drawing the moth with black maker pen and painting
it with water colors.
Watercolor techniques; allowing colors to blend
together as they do on the month.
Endangered species discussion - mother and their
function - anatomy of the moth.
