Line Paintings... In Progress!

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Harold and the Purple Crayon "Paint Along"

Kindergarten artists used purple paint on large table-sized sheets of paper to "paint along" with the classic story "Harold and the Purple Crayon" and "A Picture for Harold's Room."  They worked collaboratively to practice group work skills like sharing space and materials.
  

Kindergarten Paintings inspired by Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

 

Kindergarten artists looked at Van Gogh's famous painting "Starry Night."  We used acrylic paint on aluminum foil to create paintings inspired by this famous piece. 

 

Line Paintings

First and Second grade artists used black acrylic paint to "collect" all of the different types of lines they could think of.  Then they chose two primary colors to mix to paint the background.

The Red Book and Red Paintings

Pre-K artists read The Red Book by Barbara Lehman. 

Then we made red paintings.  Our paintings included red apples, roses, birds, fire trucks and much more! 

Kindergarten Paintings

Kindergarten Artists made paintings on large paper, then told a teacher stories about the paintings. Here are some of their masterpieces:

It's mine and Aidan's houses and this is the ground. -William

Captain Sarah at the Beach. Homes are floating in the water. - Sarah

Isabella

This is a car that's Rainbow. These are the lights. -Ellie

These are a lot of slides and these are little girls. -Miranda

This is a picture in the summer. The flowers smell yummy! - Zaccari

This is a truck on ice. Me and Isabella are in it. We are going to Alaska. - Grady

This is a picture of a roller coaster. It is a lot of fun. - Zaccari

This is me and Isabella. We are swimming in the ocean. A boat drove us here. - Grady

We are in a truck. We are going to South Africa. We are going to see Aliens in the Space Room! - Isabella

Sarah

It's an amusement park. There are slides. You can do lots of fun things. -Cecelia

This is Rainbow ground. There are weeds and there are tents with people sleeping in them. - Miranda

This is Will. He is playing with me. We are playing Superhero because we like Superheroes! -Aidan

These are three tulips and me picking them. There is a rainbow under the sky. These are all different kinds of grass. - Delaney

This is a family of flowers and they are resting in the sun and they are growing. The flowers are Baby Snap, Baby Grown, Tulip, Simma (the special one). These are all of the flowers. - Ellie

It is thunder on the beach and there is grass and a little mouse's home. And it's raining. And there's a gigantic drop and a snail. - Cecelia

It's an assembly line making a chair lift. It goes all the way up the ski mountain. - Jack

I am happy picking flowers for my mom. - Willow

Grady

Paintings inspired by Miro

Fifth and sixth grade artists looked at several examples of paintings by Spanish artist Joan Miro. We discussed his unique style and identified several repeated shapes and motifs. Students planned their pieces before they started to paint. Then they built their paintings layer by layer.

Here are some of Miro's paintings that we looked at:






Here are some examples of student work:

CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS ART

Third and fourth grade artists looked at artwork from Canada's First Nation tribes, specifically the Haida. This project tied in with the school-wide study of Arctic regions, as well as the Vancouver Olympic games. Students chose an animal to represent in a style similar to the Haida work we viewed. Here is a salmon painted by a member of the Haidi tribe.




Here are some student pieces: