Kinder art students learned all about free form shapes. We talked about how most free form shapes come from nature, and concentrated on the different shapes of leaves. Students did a texture rubbing of different leaves with crayons, and filled their entire papers. The next day, students learned how to paint carefully to take care of their brushes. Students added a different color of paint to each leaf, so that each leaf now had two different colors. Students were amazed at how the waxy crayon leaves resisted the wet paint! Students created beautiful, abstract works of art with the free form shaped leaves!
Check out the finished paintings here on Artsonia!
http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?project=997760
Kinder students are studying the Pop artist Jasper Johns. We looked at several of his paintings that included letters and numbers and talked about how you can find letters and numbers everywhere out in the world: signs, buildings, telephones, microwaves, etc. Students then folded their papers to get a grid, and started drawing numbers or letters.
Then the most fun part was painting! Each student added four different colors to each letter or number, which made the works a little more abstract like Johns' style. We talked about the science of how the water-based paint resists the oil pastel lines and sticks to the paper instead of the letters or numbers. Check out all of the wonderful finished paintings here at Zilker's Online Museum: http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=766073
