Winter Watercolor Trees by Kindergarten

Apple Art Inspired by Paul Cezanne's Still Life Paintings

Artists looked at examples of Paul Cezanne's still life paintings of apples and fruit bowls.

We used yoga to calm our bodies as we pretended to be apple trees. 

Then we used collage, printing and painting to explore making Apple Art.

Kindergarten Leaf Rubbing Watercolor Resist Paintings

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Matisse Goldfish Collage by Grades Three and Four

Third and fourth graders looked at Henri Matisse's Goldfish painting as inspiration for their Original Works Fundraiser collages.  We started by painting a variety of colored paper using different watercolor techniques.  Then we used crayons to create a patterned background using watercolor resist.  We looked at several examples of Matisse's paintings and collages for inspiration for the patterns and colors of the background and shapes to include in our collages.  

Painted paper using liquid watercolor paint, salt, plastic wrap, bubble wrap and other techniques:

Collages inspired by Matisse's Goldfish:

Dot day!

Dot paintings by first and second grade artists in celebration of International Dot Day!

Did you remember to wear dots today?  These kids did! 

Kindergarten Dot Day Art Stations:

Dot stickers

Dot stampers

Dot tracing

Dot collage 

Third and fourth grade group Dot Paintings 

Kindergartners explore watercolors

Kindergarten artists learned different tips and tricks for watercolor painting. We set up three stations in our art room, each with liquid watercolor paint. The first station had crayons so that they could experiment with watercolor resist. The second had sharpie markers and the third had salt. The salt station was definitely the favorite, as they loved watching the crystalline patterns emerge on their paintings. We will continue to use each of these techniques in our artwork.

Watercolor class at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe

Over the weekend I taught a watercolor class at the HDAC in Stowe. Students were very young, but also very creative and eager artists. We looked at Van Gogh's sunflower paintings and We worked on very large paper. One student stated that his painting was his best work ever!

Kindergartners do Kandinsky

Kindergartners looked at "Circles in Concentric Squares." 

They used oil pastels and liquid watercolors to make their own circle drawings. 

Pre-K larger than life Ice Cream Cones

Just in time for summer... I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!  

Pre-schoolers were challenged to make ice cream cones as tall or taller than themselves.  

To get ourselves excited about this tasty treat, we listed to this funny song about ice cream, words by Jack Prelutsky, sung by Natalie Merchant.

Taller than Mrs. A-K!

Adding sprinkles made from colored rice