Kindergarten students just finished their self-portraits this week!! In order to get everything perfect, we spent several classes talking about where features go on our faces, how to draw those features, and looking at ourselves in the mirrors! Students used a variety of mediums for their portraits including construction paper, yarn, and paint! This is one of my favorite projects that kindergarten does because the artworks turn out so cute!!!!
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For this project, kindergarten students looked at and studied several examples of Van Gogh's Sunflower paintings. After looking at his paintings and discussing them, it was time for students to get to work. We drew our sunflowers using oil pastels in similar colors to those Van Gogh used. The final touch was to use watercolor paints to fill in the background! The sunflowers really brighten up our downstairs hallway!!
Kindergarten students created WILD THINGS, based upon illustrations in the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. We read the book together and discussed the illustrations of the Wild Things. After our discussion, students created their own Wild Things! The artworks look wonderfully wild!!!
Kindergarten students have been creating some winter inspired artworks. Everyone loves to try to catch snowflakes in their mouths during the first winter snow, and kindergarten students created an artwork depicting just that: someone trying to catch snowflakes!!! These are so cute and make a great winter display for our hallway!
Kindergarten students continued their work with line to create their Eric Carle inspired spiders. Together we read The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle picking out lines we saw along the way. Students then used their knowledge of line to create their spiders and spider webs.
Kindergarten students are continuing their work with lines! For this project, kindergarten students drew a ladybug and filled the body with as many different types of lines as they could come up with. After drawing their bugs, students added color to their artwork by adding tissue paper. Students painted over colored pieces of tissue paper with water, allowing the color from the tissue to bleed onto their papers. Students loved watching the colors from the tissue flow onto their paper when they added water!
Kindergarten students are learning about different types of lines. Students began this lesson by discussing the work of Jackson Pollock. As a group, we tried to find as many different types of lines as we could within his paintings. Next, students created a marble painting, taking their inspiration from Jackson Pollock. Students will rolled paint covered marbles around and over their paper trying to create various types of lines. The results turn out looking just like the famous paintings of Jackson Pollock!
The first project of the year for kindergarten was Hands with Radiating Lines. This project incorporates a combination of tracing, cutting, coloring, painting, and gluing skills. Having students complete so many tasks on the first project allows me to see what art skills incoming kindergarten students need to practice and what skills they have already mastered. Kindergarten students enjoyed using several different mediums on this first project. The results are beautiful!
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