Jasper Johns is an artist that makes paintings using simple designs like letters and numbers, targets and flags. We gained our inspiration from his work and used stencils to create these numbers, which the students then painted. Using the stencils was a new experience for a lot of kids and using paint sticks was as well. They found such interesting ways to illustrate their numbers. I can't wait to see them all hanging up at once!
Kindergarteners have been working on these pumpkins with silly faces. First, they painted a piece of paper using yellow, white, and orange paint. Then they cut the paper into pumpkin shapes and added eyes, stems, mouths, noses, and teeth. They make me laugh so much! I hope you enjoy them!
So far this year the kindergarteners have been hard at work learning about the art room and how to correctly use art materials. In addition, they learned about two important art elements: color and line! The students learned about different kinds of lines and made these paintings while listening to Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev. They drew the lines they thought they heard. Then we learned about all the colors, and how those colors in order created a rainbow! The students make these stunning paintings. I can't wait to hang them up!
The last project the kindergarteners have been working on is a observational drawing of sunflowers. The students learned about van Gogh and saw some of his artwork. Giant (fake) sunflowers were placed around the room and we noticed features of them, especially the shapes of the petals and leaves. After coloring our sunflowers, we added spirals and dashed lines to show our knowledge of some features van Gogh "liked" to use. Then we painted over them with watercolors. They are beautiful- I am so glad I got to work with the kindergartners this year. See you next year!
The Kindergarteners have self portraits that will be in the Art Show on March 15. Here are some examples of how beautiful they are. They drew themselves using shapes and by looking at themselves in the mirror. Then they traced over their pictures with sharpie. To finish, we colored coffee filters and sprayed water on them. The result is a truly beautiful self portrait--- and I hope you come to see them FRAMED at the art show :)
Please note that you can come see your child's framed artwork in the art show even if you have no intention of buying it framed-- and after the company takes the artwork out of the frames, your child's self portrait will still be returned to you. :) :) :) :) The students did lots of printmaking with this project! We discussed color mixing and free painted to create the backgrounds. We learned about how Joan Miro created his abstract works using bold black lines. Then the students used shapes and black paint to create these beautiful paintings.
Here at Van Buren, we discuss bucketfilling daily. Every person has an imaginary, invisible bucket that they carry with them at all times. When you are kind to someone, you fill their bucket and also fill your own. When you are unkind, you dip in people's buckets. To remember this, we made clay bucket necklaces. The students did a great job being patient during the long process that is clay. They made the buckets out of clay, which then had to be fired. After firing, the students glazed them. I put overglaze on top of each bucket. Then they were fired again. In between these times, the students painted wooden beads to go on their necklaces as well. This week was the final reveal- the students got to put their bucket necklaces together at last and take them home! You filled my bucket, Kindergarteners, and I hope you keep filling more!
First of all, I could barely hang these pumpkins because I was laughing so hard at their expressions. Hopefully you get to see some of them Thursday when you are here for parent-teacher conferences. The students used a mix of white, orange, and yellow to paint large papers. Using construction paper scraps and scissors, we gave the pumpkins stems, eyes, and mouths to create these hilarious pumpkins. Just in time for Halloween!
Continuing what we learned about line, the kindergarteners listened to "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev and painted the lines that they "heard" within the music. They really seemed to grasp this abstract concept by the time we were done. Then we learned about rainbows (there's a picture of me and my rainbow hat on this website somewhere...) and added color to our pictures. They turned out very unique and stunning, especially all together.
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