How You Can Create a Rainbow - Art Lesson

Now that you know that different parts of the sun's energy makes us see a rainbow, you can arrange your colors the same way to create an Art Rainbow.

The order is simple:

red

       orange

                    yellow

                                green

                                           blue

                                                     violet

PLUS, it can go in a circle
and when it does, it repeats and repeats and repeats!!

Here's how to do it.  Gather up your colors 

and then, put them in the correct order . . . . .like this. 

Now take the colors, one at a time, and draw with them, keeping them in order........

Grandma Rainbow has art made with markers!

This one was made with crayons!

This rainbow was painted for Grandma
and it is a "Main Rainbow" because the
child was learning about rainbow order and this was her first painting using color this way . . . it is frame-able. When you learn the "rainbow", choose one of your best and have someone help you frame it as your very own "Main Rainbow".

Have mom or dad or grandma or grandpa or the person who loves and takes care of you to send me a .jpeg of your rainbow picture - they will know what that is.  They can send it to grandmarainbow@gmail.com. 

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Lines

The next posts from Grand-Ma Rainbow's Porch are about LINES.

 What is a line?  

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Let’s Emancipate (Free) the Rainbow

Rainbows are colors and nature and beauty.  Rainbows are colors reflected by nature and the beauty of that.

As we learned from science, the rainbow is the reflection of the sun’s light off of rain-drops.  However, the rainbow has also become a very well known symbol for other things! 

What is a symbol?  A symbol is simply a sign that means or “stands for” something else!  A symbol can be a simple way to say things that are not so simple.  Sometimes, the meaning that is popular takes on a whole new life; life that has nothing to do with the original symbol. The rainbow has come to be known for other things than just the simple beauty of nature.

HOWEVER, rainbows really are colors reflected by nature and the beauty of that.  That is important to remember and together we can free the rainbow for all of us, for everyone ………not just for some.

So, if you love colors and nature and beauty……don’t give up on rainbows, or they will lose their “wonderfulness”.  Rainbows symbolize color and nature and beauty…… they even can teach us a lot about science.   Science is good……….so are rainbows!

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Some Examples of Children’s “Main Rainbows”

This rainbow was painted for Grandma by Mia when she was 4 years old. It is a "Main Rainbow" because Mia was just learning about rainbow order.  She practiced and practiced using all kinds of colors. . . . she used crayons and colored pencils and even magic-markers!

 red

          orange

                       yellow

                                  green

                                              blue

                                                        violet

However, this was her first PAINTING using color this way.  She used tempera paint because it is paint that cleans up with water.  

This painting is "frame-able" because it is more than a painting.  It is also a beautiful example of Mia’s learning.  It is an example of her learning and understanding that everyone else can SEE.  And she doesn’t even have to write words so that we can know what Mia learned about science, rainbows and color. 

You can learn and practice how to make a "rainbow" using color in the correct order. Then choose one of your best rainbow picture and have someone help you frame it as your very own learning.

Here are two more examples of Mia’s younger friends using the same process of learning, practicing and then choosing a “main rainbow”.  All three of these rainbow pictures are framed!

Mia’s friend Penny learned about Rainbow order when she was three years old.  This magic-marker drawing was done soon after she learned how to hold a marker and make marks.  Note how each color is heavier on the left side of the paper where she began each line.                                                                                                               

Walt saw the rainbows done by his friends Mia and Penny.  He understood rainbows already.  “It’s easy”he thought to himself.  All you have to do is go in order:

red

      orange

                  yellow

                             green

                                         blue

                                                  violet               

When the paint was ready, he too made a rainbow painting that Grandma framed as “Walt’s Main Rainbow”.

Have mom or dad or grandma or grandpa or the person who takes care of you send me a .jpeg file of your rainbow picture—they will know what that is.  They can send it to:  grandmarainbow@gmail.com

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Grandma Rainbow, How A Rainbow is Made by Nature

COLOR!

“Emancipate the Rainbow”

          Color is the part of light that we can see.  The range of visible light waves goes from red to violet  (note: violet and purple are different names for the same color that we see).  Light waves that we can't see are infra-red and ultra-violet.

The rainbow is a reflection of the sun’s light waves bouncing off of raindrops.  

Light travels in waves. The light's wavelength determines its color. Short wavelength light, for example, appears blue, and long wavelength light appears red.

When light strikes particles that are larger than its wavelength, the light's path may be altered. When light strikes particles that are smaller than its wavelength, the light continues to travel unaffected.

The atmosphere contains many particles and gases, mainly nitrogen and oxygen.

Sunlight is composed of light of many different wavelengths. Longer wavelength light appears red, orange, and yellow, while shorter wavelength light appears blue, indigo and violet. The gas molecules in the atmosphere scatter, in all directions, shorter wavelength light (e.g., blue). The longer wavelength light (e.g., red) is largely unaffected by the atmosphere. As a result, when you look at the sky, you see the blue portion of the sun's light being scattered by the atmosphere. If you were to look at the sky while standing on the moon, you would see a very bright star surrounded by complete darkness. This is because the moon has no atmosphere and so sunlight is not scattered. 

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Grandma's Rainbow from Her Front Porch.

This is GrandMa's Rainbow which is always right in front of GrandMa's porch and it comes to me every day looking for your Art!  It know that I have to have some art from you, my friend.  They just knew it would be beautiful because of all the colors that I have on my front porch. The next thing I want to do is give you a lesson on how to make rainbows.

Who is Grandma Rainbow?

Grandma Rainbow is your favorite neighbor who sits on her porch and the neighborhood kids love to “hang out” with her.  She used be a teacher so she always has crayons and clay and finger paints and all kinds of cool stuff on her porch.  She never says, “I’m too busy today, she just says, come on let’s play.”  “I will bet you if you draw me a picture, you will learn something today.”Can you draw me what’s on your mind?  What are you thinking?  Can you paint a picture of that?  Once we get a picture, I will bet you we can match it with some words?  What do youthink, can we pick a color that says how you feel today????It doesn’t matter how good you draw.  Maybe it’s just some lines or shapes and colors.  We will figure it out.  No matter what it looks like it’s your special creation.  You made it and I want to put it on my blog because I am sure it is just beautiful and I want everyone to see it.
I already have some pretty wonderful art from my friends and I will get started with that until you send me your art.  Can’t wait to see what you draw for me.  Lines, pictures, colors, that’s all you need.  You will get better as you go along.

Have mom or dad or grandma or grandpa or the person who takes care of you send me a .jpeg of your picture—they will know what that is.  They can send it to:  grandmarainbow@gmail.com

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