Students used crayons, markers, oil pastels and paint to make all kinds of LINE qualities and directions; thick, thin,straight, curved, zig-zag, spiral, dots, horizontal, diagonal, and vertical. Next, students glued newspaper to add TEXTURE.
This painting became the BACKGROUND for our Prehistoric cave paintings. Third graders study rocks, minerals, and fossils and we talked about how prehistoric artists made their paint and why they painted animals on the rock walls.
We took a virtual tour of the Prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, France and learned to draw a bull and a horse in our sketchbooks. Students chose their favorite animal to draw on their painted background with chalk pastels and added their signature hand print!
