1st Grade Owl Collages

Artwork by Chloe Jane P.

I've been introducing the first graders to the art element of texture by having them create these owl collages with real texture.  It helps to look at various images of owls and other animals and have the students use good texture words to describe how the animal might feel.  Later, they'll learn how some artworks just look like they have texture (what artists call "implied" texture).

Artwork by Kale K.

Artwork by Tayla N.

 

Kindergarten Kandinskys

Artwork by Annaleigh B.

 

Kinders have been investigating Wassily Kandinsky's famous Squares with Concentric Circles and trying their own hand at combining various colors in the same visual format.  This is a great lesson to not only familiarize the students with a famous work of abstract art, but also to build their confidence with watercolors, challenge their fine motor skills, and allow them to experience firsthand what happens as colors combine and how certain color combinations have more "oomph" than others.  When all of the classes have completed this painting, I'll display a number of them together as one giant, colorful work of art!

 

Wassily Kandinsky, Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913

Artwork by Grant M.

Artwork by Jubilee S.