Fifth grade lighthouses

Fifth grade students studied form, and then created these lighthouses. We practiced shading with our pencil, and highlighting the black paper with a white crayon. Students cut their lighthouses out with a black paper behind it so they had a black silhoutte the same size as the lighthouse. Then they drew their design on the black paper and cut it and pasted it on the lighthouse, and then added the highlight with the white crayon.

For the painting, we divided our paper into the sky, water, and sand. We did a wet on wet watercolor technique for the sky, wet on dry with horizontal stroke for the water, and splatter painted the sand. We drew an ellipse to be used as the We taped off the edge to give a little border.

Fifth grade work: