First Grade Still Life Flower Painting

First Graders practiced mixing primary colors to make secondary colors, adding white to make colors lighter and black to make colors darker.  Then they worked with magenta and turquoise in their primary palettes to make a whole new array of colors.  They used all of their new colors to paint a still life picture of flowers in a vase on a table.  They planned their composition to include three parts of space: foreground, middle ground and background thus creating a special place for their still life!