1st grade - Kandinsky Inspired Pictures

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), a famous painter, painted these fun, free-formed circles.  The first grade students created their own Kandinsky inspired circle pictures, using circles they cut themselves out of construction paper!  It was great cutting practice and they had lots of fun!

Here is Mrs. Oxborrow's Kandinsky inspired artwork...

Here is Mrs. Watson's Kandinsky inspired artwork...

And, finally, here is a collection of the students' work!

1st grade - Textures

Today in class we used rubbing plates and crayons to explore textures as a topic for the first time. The kids had such a fun time that they had a hard time putting the crayons and plates away at clean up time!

Here is a 'homework' challenge! As a family activity, go on a texture hunt through your house! Using a crayon and a piece of paper, create rubbings of as many different textures as you can find. After 5 minutes, gather together when the timer goes off and see who found the most different textures!

This is not required homework and does not need to be brought to class for credit.  It is just for fun!

1st grade - Line and Texture

My first grade students spent a couple of days working with lines and textures. Each student placed several different kinds of lines on their paper with a black crayon. After placing the lines, the students used texture rubbing plates to fill the paper with colorful textures. They were encouraged to try multiple layers of textures and multiple layers of coordinating colors. Everyone had lots of fun!

1st grade - facial expressions

This week in art we are going to focus on drawing faces as portraits.

We will look at images of children who feel happy, sad, angry, or scared (startled). We will talk specifically about what happens to each part of the face during each emotion. For instance, have you noticed that someone who is angry pulls their eyebrows together and/or down so that scrunched up wrinkles show up on the nose?

At home today, you should go look in a mirror and make faces that show emotions! Watch your face carefully to see what each part of the face does during that emotion.  We will practice drawing faces that are showing emotions.

Meanwhile, can you look at these children and tell who is feeling happy? Sad? Angry? Surprised?