While kindergarten artists were learning about the primary colors in the art room our student teacher, Ms. McGowan, introduced them to the artist Jasper Johns and his colorful number paintings. Each artist folded their papers to create boxes and then used the primary colors to paint numbers in each box. They carefully painted around …
Kindergarten artists have been learning about the primary colors! We looked at the artwork of Piet Mondrian and saw how he used the primary colors and black lines, so we created our own artwork with primary colors and black lines! Since it was close to Halloween, we created spider webs! Then we looked at …
Kindergarten artists began the year by learning about different kinds of lines! They practiced drawing lines and learned the names of the lines first. Then they created their own line sculptures by folding, rolling, and gluing line papers to POP out of their paper! Next each artist painted their favorite kinds of lines with …
Kindergarten artists made castles painting! Each artist drew their own castle after looking at different examples of castles from around the world. They used a combination of the shapes and lines that we have been learning about all year. They also were introduced to warm and cool color families and colored around their castle …
Kindergarten artists have finished making a spring time collage! We looked outside and at pictures of springtime in Michigan and noticed all of the flowers growing, more insects and animals outside, and green leaves and grass. After painting a sky paper, everyone painted a different colored textured paper that they could share to make the …
Kindergarten artists drew springtime birds one day in art class last week! We looked at pictures of birds that were standing or sitting and found shapes and lines that were used to make them. Artists used chalk to draw and color their birds.
Kindergarten artists created a self-portrait in the art room! They began by drawing and painting a head, neck, hair, and shoulders. Then they added facial features with oil pastels. They finished by designing a background using shapes, lines, and colors.
While learning about SHAPE, an element of art, Kindergarten artists created drawings, collages, and paintings. They drew a train made out of different shapes during one art class. They created robots out of shapes that they cut and glued during another class. We read the book “The Shape of my Heart” during another class and …
Kindergarten artists created penguin collages in the art room! They began by drawing snowflakes with white crayons on a white paper. Then they painted over the snowflakes with cool colors (green, blue, and purple) to reveal the snowflakes. This is a watercolor resist technique! Then they cut out the parts of a penguin using …
Kindergarten artists have been mixing the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue, and creating the secondary colors, purple, green, and orange. Each artist had painted black lines when we were still learning about the different types of lines back in September. With red, yellow, and blue paint, each artist experimented to see all of …