Kindergartners have begun their unit on color! We are learning about the primary colors and how they are blended together to make the secondary colors. The students have enjoyed reading Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh and they can't wait to start mixing colors and of course painting!
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Spring is in the air and kindergartners have created some lovely Spring Trees. This unit on landscapes focused on foreground, horizon line and visual texture. Vertical, horizontal and diagonal line direction was also reviewed in this lesson. The next page in our Art Book is entitled "Texture." Students are exploring both visual and tactile texture and how it is used in various pieces of artwork. We studied the visual texture in Albrecht Durer's Rhinoceros print. Students then created texture on paper from tactile texture rubbing plates...a very memorable experience for all of them!
Our next unit of study is how artists use pattern in their work. We looked at various artists who use pattern and how our eyes are drawn to pattern in our clothes and in pictures. The artist Jim Dine inspired us to create our wonderful clay hearts. We worked with various tools to make pattern impressions in the clay. We decided that Mr. Dine painted so many hearts because he wants us to remember to spread more love! Kindergartners explored the concept of symmetry to create winter evergreen trees. Using a mono print technique of vertical and diagonal lines our trees became balanced on both sides. Students then worked with a horizon line and overlapping snow to create the tree in a winter scene. Our second unit is all about shapes. Students were introduced to the two "families" of shapes…the Geometrics and the Organics. We have been busy learning how to "draw" with our scissors and cut both kinds of shapes to create an Abstract Collage. Our first "drawing lesson" was learning how to draw spiders! As we drew the spider we worked with symmetry and then learned how to show depth in our drawings. We made some spiders look farther away from us by drawing them smaller. We also learned what concentric circles were when we created our spider's web! Kindergartners are learning how artists use overlapping in landscapes to show something in front of something else. They also have learned how artists mix colors to show light reflecting on objects....we painted the sunlight reflecting on our pumpkins in our "Pumpkin Patch Landscapes." We then used vertical and horizontal line patterns to add visual interest to our paintings. Check back soon to see the student's paintings! Here are some of their wonderful paintings!
Exploring texture and color blending the students created trees with newly opened leaves on them! |
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