Monochromatic Painting with Shapes

This lesson was about learning shades and tints of colors using shapes. First I chose to trace a circle cup for my shape. Next I chose the color purple. We first experiemented how to make tints of the color we chose by adding white. We took it another step by adding more white to make a different tint than the first one we created. We did the same thing for shades except that we added black to our original color. For this painting, we had to have our original color present in one of the shapes and then at least two shades and two tints. Once our paint dried we had to outline the shapes with black marker to give defintion to the shades and tints with the shapes.

An extension activity I would include with this project would be geometry. Students could learn about sine, cosine and tangent.