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.
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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
