Self Portraits inspired by Frida Kahlo

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#selfportraits inspired by #fridakahlo from @faystonschool #gradesoneandtwo #fridaandheranimalitos

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Kindergarten Giant Ice Cream Cones!

#faystonschool #kindergarten welcomes summer with #icecreamcones as big as themselves! #elementaryart (You would not believe how long it took to get organized for this picture!🤪)

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Inspired by Andy Warhol's Flowers

Kindergarten artists learned about pop artist Andy Warhol.  We talked about how he made his prints of everyday items using bright, bold colors.  Here is one example Warhol's flower prints.  He made this print many times using many different colors.

Here is Andy Warhol with some of his flower prints. 

Look at these flower prints! They take up a whole wall in an art gallery! 

Kindergarten artists used different shades of green acrylic paint on glossy black boards.  After spreading the paint with brushes, they used forks to add the grass texture to the paint.  Then they added cut paper flowers.  

Birds and Birches

First and second graders looked at the beautiful and fun collage illustrations in Lois Ehlert's book "Snowballs."

We used liquid watercolor paint with oil pastel resist to make colorful papers, which we used to cut out our birds. We used sheet music for our birch trees and added shading and detail with black oil pastels. 

Thank you to the art blog www.deepspacesparkle.com for the inspiration for this lesson. 

Inspired by Picasso's Flowers and Hands painting

Kindergarten artists looked at Picasso's famous painting of friends sharing a bouquet of flowers. We used oil pastels for the stems, tempera paint for the flowers and construction paper for the hands, which some artists chose to leave out. We created these pieces for our Original Works fundraiser.

Pre-K Valentine's Day Printing Project- Part Two

Pre-K artists completed their Valentine's Day printing projects in art class today.  Last week we made the large printed hearts using foam paper and printing ink.  Today they cut out their prints from last week and made a collage as a surface to print onto.  They could also include small hearts cut from decorative handmade paper.  

For today's printing project, we bent toilet paper rolls into heart shapes and then printed hearts all over the pages.  I added pearl medium and glitter to some of the paints and I added liquid soap to the white paint, so that the paint would form a bubble on the end of the tube to create a solid heart.  

We made our pieces of artwork on 8"X10" black mat board so that they will stand the test of time or are frame-ready.