Kinder Explores 2018-19

Welcome young artist! I'm so glad to have you join us...

1 Start of School Self Portrait-Introduction to portraits: What do I look like?  What are the parts of the human face? What is my story? Frame, background, signature

2 Color Theory Fall leaves (yellow and red to make orange). Seasons, colors, plant life. Warm colors, Cool colors…leaves in gutters.

3/4 Color Line Monsters- lines straight lines curvy- continue our study of lines looking at famous works of art for inspiration. Drawing, cutting, watercolor and collage. Expressive faces and Storytelling. 

5-6 Winter Polar Bears- shape and blending, weather and collage. Building a composition through layers. Created Penguin background at the same time as the Bear body with white tempera paint.

laying out the colors 

7-1.5 Event Project:  Rainbow Unicorn. Inspired by the sugar bright colors of Pop 90’s artist Lisa Frank the Kinder art piece has so much to LOVE. Collaged hand painted papers embellished with glitter and acrylic paint set against a mat black background. This would be the perfect addition to any room.
the Kinder students created the color paper (acrylic paint) and cut out shapes to create a group collage. Fingerprint details on horn. Lots of imaginative fun and exploration. 

8-Penguins on Parade - 3 different body shapes to select . Painted background, color and collage. Discussion about penguin habitats

9/10 Red Rectangular Robots- 2 Part project, following a series of directions, adding details, construction paper, crayons and embellishments- What is your Robots Job or Special Skill?  Primary colors added details with drawing. 

11 Model Magic clay snails- color blending and building a coil shape with clay, Snails lives on  folded leaf with name/room number labels

12+-1 My own Unicorn- Using precut head shapes and scraps from the Event project and their own watercolor test sheet, students cut, colored and designed their own unicorn.

Extra-End of the year student self portrait

Kinder Pumpkin color blending

Fall is pumpkin season and a perfect connection to color blending and a wonderful way to introduce Warm and Cool colors.

Picasso inspired

2nd grade project Picasso Inspired Fairy Tale Villains.
Fun art history connection with lots of skill building and imagination!

Pioneer Paper Quilt

Lake George Inspired Watercolor

Inspired by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe's painting of lake George students worked bold and expressive using watercolors and watercolor pencils

Lake George, Autumn, 1927 by Georgia O'Keeffe

Electric Composition

Inspired by the work of Sonia Delaunay, this direct drawing project builds vocabulary and skill sets/using a ruler.

Sonia Delaunay, 1914, Prismes électriques, oil on canvas, 250 x 250 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre 
Pompidou, Paris

Winter Tree in Full Moon

Part II: Students traced their hand on black paper with open fingers, Using a white crayon or color pencil they extended the fingers into branches. Cut out tree shape and attached to Moon/Sky. Added additional branches as needed to develop the composition.

Value Scale Buildings

Color blending and color theory, blending to create a value scale. Understand art vocabulary, following a series of directions.

Using the painted value scale paper, artists created a building form that they embellished with cut paper and color pencils. Handouts where available with images of architecture from around the world.

Full moon

Artists create a full moon painting using one hue plus white and black. Step by step creating value rings around the moon.

Tree/branch to be added later.

Kinder color blending

Using sponges and tempera paint colors-red and yellow, students created orange

Kinder Color Wheel Flowers

This project took 3 sessions to complete. One for drawing, one for painting and one for cutting. In the end these became a beautiful class wall hanging like a vertical Monet!

Roman Paper Mosaics

Value scale hearts

Working with a heart shape and using a ruler to divide out the surface students explore adding white and black to a hue. After the paint dried lines were redrawn with Sharpie.

Red Rectangular Robots

Fun with color and shape, top, middle, bottom, counting, and parts of the body!

Kinder Garden Art Piece of the Event

Painted Paper, torn tissue paper and lots of fun hands on creativity...we made sheets and sheets of color blending/painting paper.

Kinder Rainbow City

Sessions IV and V compare and contrast city and country

3rd Grade Amazing Winter Sunset Sky with Branches

Prime the paper and learn how to apply watercolor wet on wet surface

1st Grade Session III Landscape Basics

Exploring colors and creating a landscape:
Can you take 2 colors and make a dramatic landscape?
 What are the parts of landscape?
What do blue and yellow make when mixed together?
This will be the base for our Jungle picture...

Kinder Session III Pumpkin colors

Color blending and shapes. The story of Spookley the Square pumpkin was the inspiration for this painting/color blending project.

2nd Grade Art Session I (and warm up for future dates)

Line Directional Dance is the on going line based drawing project for 2nd grade. After our meet and greet and art talk all students received a rectangular piece of watercolor paper, a drawing pencil and a ruler. Using a series of verbal instructions and the ever popular Red Light stop/freeze, Green Light draw students created their own unique line based composition. This project is a great way to evaluate skill set, work with rulers and use hands on experiences to express the understanding of line direction, plus it allows for a lot of individual creativity within an art frame work. The students will later add color to these creations and develop them into more complex compositions but for now we just had a lot of joy in moving our dot around the paper!

Line work, drawn with pencil the Sharpie 

Each class had a different set of line/shape/direction instructions 

Here is an Art History-Inspiration Snap Shot: 

In session II and III students warmed up with this line project adding color and patterns/blending.We reviewed line direction and ruler skills as well.  They began to see connections to the Inspiration pieces. Vocabulary word of the day concentric circles!

You can really see how the project is developing, the colors make it POP!