Showing posts with label principles and elements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label principles and elements. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Kindergarten line paintings

Kindergarten artists explored how many different types of lines they could create and used the color wheel to help choose colors to paint these fun pictures.  




Thursday, February 9, 2012

Kindergarten Pattern Hearts

It is never to early to start teaching about the principles of design and the elements of art.  Kindergarten artists discussed LINES and PATTERNS before using Sharpie markers to draw a heart and fill it in using as many different types of lines and patterns as possible.  We used liquid watercolors to paint the hearts.  It is hard to see in the photographs, but I added pearl medium to the paints so that the hearts sparkle festively!






My example:
(I often hesitate to show an example of finished work because some artists feel that their work needs to look exactly like mine.  In this case, I think having an example to refer to helped the young artists with getting the size of the hearts right and gave them some ideas for different types of lines and patterns.)