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 …
Kindergarten artists began the year by learning about LINE, an element of design! They learned the line names, drew lines, painted lines, and created line sculptures! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K25LLDfZ9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ml8ONIfxeE
On the first day of art class this year each artist practiced our art room procedures. Then, everyone made their own monochromatic self portrait for our Welcome Back Mural. We learned that monochromatic means ‘one color’ and we colored our self portraits with just one color. A self-portrait is a picture an artist draws of themselves! Once …
Kindergarten artists have been very busy during these last weeks of school and have made a new piece of artwork during each class to review things they have learned throughout the year. Some of these art works are shown below. Painted Pineapples: Mixed Media Lupine Flowers Ice Cream Cone Collage Color …
Kindergarten artists created an ice cream cone collage in art this week! They first identified shapes they would need to make a cone and scoops of ice cream. They selected papers that we had painted earlier in the year to cut their shapes from. They ripped up pieces from their papers and glued them …
Kindergarten artists reviewed the rainbow color order and noticed how it matched with the color wheel order when put into a circle. We practiced our rainbow color song from the beginning of the year again to help us remember the order. After talking about the different parts of a flower and their jobs, artists used …
Kindergarten artists became architects in the art room and designed their very own castles! They used shapes and lines to draw a castle with oil pastels. Then they chose warm OR cool colors to paint their castle.
Kindergarten artists created winter collages using painted papers. They began by painting a night sky. Some artists chose to add stars or snow. Then they painted papers and gave them different textures to look bumpy or smooth or rough. We learned about foreground and background in art class. Artists tried to show that some houses …
Kindergarten artists learned an African Zulu song in music class and looked at beautifully woven Zulu baskets in the art room. Each artist drew a basket and repeated some of the lines, shapes, and colors we have been learning about to create a pattern. Watercolor paint was used over the oil pastel patterns for a …
Kindergarten artists read the book “Mouse Paint” by Ellen Stoll Walsh. They then drew three mice just like in the story. Last, the artists mixed the primary colors to create the secondary colors so that the mice looked as though they were painting!