Monkey Faces

Monkey Faces - Day 2

Bear Paw Studio - Kid's Art Camp

Art Safari - Sept. 24 - 27, 2012

Day two of our Art Safari took us to the monkeys!  The adventure started with a review of the color wheel and how primary and secondary colors differ.  Two other terms we learned about were complementary (opposite) and analogous (similar) colors.  We used chalk to color a daisy shaped wheel to use in our project today.

The main project was to use three pre-selected "mystery" analogous colors to create monkey faces. 

With these pre-selected oil pastels, students drew circles and ovals for muzzle and eyes, and triangles for the nose and hair, colored them in, and adding a little black for contrast.   After drawing the features and laying in the colors, they worked the oil pastels with their fingers to smooth out and blend the colors together.   The artists also learned and practiced some smart cutting techniques to be sure the monkeys looked their best after being cut out.

Gretchen cuts carefully around her cute red-brown-gold monkey.

Danielle's monkey has several brilliant shades of green.

Hailey's monkey is beautiful in blue and blue-green.

Melody's monkey looks wonderful in pink and violet.

Emma's monkey is a stunning yellow-orange-red.

Cassidy's  monkey looks great in shades of blue with lots of black accents.

After the monkeys are cut out, the artists choose a paper that is a complementary color to put behind it, and then both are mounted on a black background.

Danielle is putting red behind her green monkey.

Melody puts yellow-green behind her violet monkey, and adds a nice violet border, too.

The monkeys hang on the wall, and the artists do a little monkeying around too.

Wow!  The monkeys all had very unique personalities, and color schemes that sizzled and popped! 

That does it for day 2 of our Art Safari.  Visit again to see what exciting things are on the itinerary for day 3!  Thanks for visiting!

Safari Guide,  Betsy Bear