Texture: Actual

The third graders spent a good, long time exploring emotions through expressive self-portraits.  We are finally shifting gears and instead of talking about how someone feels on the inside, we are talking about how something feels on the outside.  Smooth, rough, bumpy, slippery and hard are just examples of textures the third graders identified while studying Maria Martinez' Jar and a 19th century Cameroon Leopard Throne. We also looked at Vincent Van Gogh's Irises and Georgia O'Keeffe's From the Lake No.1 and generated a list of various textures.  The third graders are creating numerous actual textures by embossing onto aluminum with stylus tools after drawing five intersecting lines.