Kinder Free Form Leaf Paintings

 Kinder artists are learning all about Free Form Shapes in art class!  We talked about how free form shapes come from nature, and how they are different from geometric shapes: they don't have even, smooth edges, they are irregular, and they don't have specific names like geometric shapes.

First, students used crayons to rub on top of textured leaf plates, creating a print of the leaf on their papers. They repeated this step again and again with different leaves and colors until their entire paper was covered with free form shaped leaves. The we talked about painting, and how to use a brush gently. Students chose a different color paint to color their leaves, so that each leaf had two different colors.

The results are beautiful, abstract works of art! Look at them all on Artsonia, Zilker's online art museum: 
http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=834525