Tints and Shades Painting

Another art teacher in my district gave me the idea for this painting unit and I've never seen my class work so hard and be so quiet!

We start off talking about tints and shades and creating a color wheel. I give the option to students to design a creative color wheel showing tints and shades or they can use the circles worksheet.

Then I have them sketch out ideas in their sketchbook and how they could do one big design and divide into eight sections or divide into sections and do a different design in each. We also talk about unity and balance. In each section they paint the tints and shades of the color. When dry, they can outline in Sharpie if they'd like. They always turn out really cool looking.