Monochromatic Painting with Shapes

This lesson began with picking your favorite color and making different tints and shades. First we made some tints by adding white to our paint. After mixing the white with the blue we drew a line on a piece of paper demonstrating the tint. We then added more white to our already tint color. After mixing those two together we drew another line next to the first. That demonstrated how you can get different tints. We then did the same thing for shades. For shades we added black to blue. Many of us found out that only a small amount of black is needed to make a shade. Once the first shade was made we drew a line on the same sheet of paper as the tints. We then added more black to our shade mixture to make a different shade color. Then a line was drawn next to the other shade line to show the difference between shades.
Then we were told pick a shape and draw them onto a piece of construction paper. They needed to be over lapping and different sizes. After the shapes were drawn you could begin painting them in. We needed to have the base color along with different shades and tints. After we were done painting, the shapes needed to be outlined with a black sharpie or marker. They then were hung to be displayed

An extension activity that could be done with this lesson would be with math and geometric figures. They would draw a slip of paper that had a clue to the shape that needed to be drawn, such as "this shape has four congruent sides" etc. They then would make their art project using that specific shape on the slip they received.