In this lesson Kindergarteners learn about facial proportions and how to draw a self portrait. Using mirrors to observe their individual features, they began with a pencil sketch onto black paper. The kinders then chose an oil pastel to match there skin tone and began to color in there face and neck. Continuing with oil pastel to boldly color in their other features as well as the background, the self portraits come to life. These vibrant works of art should be admired and cherished by all. I am so impressed by our kindergarteners and the awesome self portraits they created. Just like true artist all the kids have their own unique individual style.
Most artists create self portraits, each year in art we will make a self portrait. We looked at many artist's self portraits and discussed how each artist has their own unique individual style.
In this lesson Kindergarteners learn about facial proportions and how to draw a self portrait. Using mirrors to observe their individual features, they began with a pencil sketch onto black paper. The kinders then chose an oil pastel to match there skin tone and began to color in there face and neck. Continuing with oil pastel to boldly color in their other features as well as the background, the self portraits come to life. These vibrant works of art should be admired and cherished by all. I am so impressed by our kindergarteners and the awesome self portraits they created. Just like true artist all the kids have their own unique individual style.
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Every year it is a tradition for EWG schools to participate in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program. This program is designed to combine science and art while raising awareness of nature conservation
Each Kindergarten and 1st grade class were given one of three male ducks to choose from, together each class compared and contrasted the differences between the three ducks such as bill shape and color, feather patterns, eye color, head shape and color and so on. Then we used our best observational skills to draw one of the ducks, adding the details we saw and using realistic colors. While the children worked on their artwork we listened to the calming sounds of a duck pond. All the students enjoyed learning about different duck species and creating a wonderful piece of art. This art lesson started off with looking at a map of the world. We looked at where we live in relation to where India is. Then as a class we discussed elephants and looked at the differences between African and Indian (or Asian) elephants. We looked at pictures and watched a video of painted Elephants at the Elephant Festival in Jaipur. Mahouts are the people who groom and decorate the elephants for the festival .The kindergarteners became Mahouts and then drew an Indian Elephant and used construction paper crayons to decorate their elephants.
This mixed media art lesson was rich with content and as usual the kindergarteners did an amazing job !
To wrap up our color and line unit Kinders finished with an art activity learning about warm and cool colors. First we looked at different art works that used either warm or cool colors to help us recognize what warm colors are vs. cool colors. After, each table group worked together sorting cool and warm color swatches to help us better understand warm vs. cool colors. At the end of this art class every kinders applied their knowledge individually and painted a painting half with warm colors and half with cool colors. The following art class we reviewed all the different lines we learned about earlier in the year: squiggly, wavy, zig zag, dashed, dotted etc. The Kinders were to create a setting or rising sun over an ocean using different lines. The sun set had to be on the warm color side and the ocean had to be on the cool color side. We ended this lesson with a critique of the classes work. Kindergartners working hard on their cutting and gluing skills in these too cute chilly penguin collages. The children drew and cut out their own penguins shapes and glued them together. In this exercise we learned how to use white glue with out making a mess, just a dot not a lot! Kindergarteners also used marker to make a patterns on their scarfs. To create snow we used cotton swabs to dot on white paint in the background. I thought it was so funny how most of the kids kept calling the earmuffs, headphones.
In Kindergarten we talked about emotions, feelings and how artists can show this in their artwork. After reading a short story about feelings we looked at some artwork and discussed what the artist was trying to tell us about how that person feels. After brainstorming all the different feelings and emotions we could illustrate, the kindergarteners used marker to draw 4 faces with 4 different emotions. In the end the children mounted their faces from side to side or top to bottom onto colored paper .
It's important to know that not only can art be used to create a picture, but also to express emotions. Continuing our study of color theory, in this art class art we learned about primary colors and mixing. Art class began with reading the story mouse paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh and listening to OK Go's Three Primary Colors, this song really got everyone moving and grooving! Kindergarteners were now ready to mix and make colors of their own. Once our primary colors were mixed to make secondary colors we made collage mice to run around on our pages. The Kindergarteners have been busy in the art room the last couple of weeks and to kick off Fall we created amazing apple artworks!
Our discussion started with Fall and all the fun things to do in Fall, such as apple picking. We looked at Cezanne's apple still lifes and all the colors of the apples. The art lesson had many components such as tracing, painting, cutting, gluing and observing from life. We are working our fine motor skills while having fun and creating art. Last week's Kindergarten art class we continued our exploration of line and the color spectrum, but this time we talked about 2D vs. 3D. The children had to first find 1 strip of each color in ROYGBIV and organize them at their spot. After, we experimented and made 3D lines with our strips... zig zags, loopy loops, wavy and all sorts of lines were made! The Kindergarteners then glued their lines down onto a black piece of paper creating a 3D sculpture. What a fun Art class, there was so much creativity and imagination in making these ROYGBIV sculptures. In the last couple of Kindergarten art classes we talked about lines: straight lines, zig zag lines, wavy lines, squiggly lines, dashed lines, scallop lines and dotted lines. We used black oil pastel and created our own lines going from one side of the paper to the other. Then we listened to and sang along with a fun song about ROYGBIV ! The final step to our art piece was to use watercolor paints and create our very own ROYGBIV color spectrum. Here's the song: Art work:
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