4th Grade- Tints and Shades Cities!

This lesson focused on value and color. The students first learned about value and did a value scale with a colored pencil. The students then had a color theory lesson. We focused on tints and shades and I explained that tints and shades were how artists show value with paint.

On the first day of the lesson, the students drew 5 simple lines across their papers to represent the tops of city buildings. Then the students had to choose a color to paint their cities. They added black to make shades and white to make tints. They had to go from darkest at the bottom to lightest at the top.