First Grade Secondary Color Pumpkins

First grade artists created a pumpkin collage with all three of the secondary colors! They began by mixing two primary colors together to make a secondary color with tempera paints.  They did this three times until they had all three secondary colors (violet, green, and orange). They used the purple paper for their sky (some …

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Picasso Portraits

First and Second grade artists in Mrs. Salami’s class created Picasso-inspired self-portraits! After looking at some of Picasso’s cubist artwork, each artist drew themselves in a cubist style.  They tried to show different parts of their faces from different points of view and changed some of the shapes. Oil pastels were used to color in …

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Kindergarten Primary Colors

Kindergarten artists have been learning about the primary colors in the art room! They began by looking at the artwork of Piet Mondrian, who had many paintings where the primary colors were used with black lines.  Each artist drew a spider web with black lines and colored in the spaces with only the primary colors like …

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Second Grade Monsters

Second grade artists are learning about texture in the art room.  Texture is the way something feels when you touch it.  There is real texture and implied texture in artwork.   After reading a story, each artist drew a monster from their imagination using shapes and lines. They used oil pastels to add implied texture …

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