Kindergarteners learned about the artist Piet Mondrian and how he used the primary colors to create an interesting composition. With Halloween coming up, students used a spider web instead of a grid to organize their primary colors. Kindergartners loved learning how to make spider webs and apparently went home and wouldn't stop drawing them! I also incorporated a little bit of math and we were counting all of the legs on spiders in groups of 2, 3 and 4.
First Graders studied the author/illustrator Eric Carle. Using his same process, students hand painted paper different colors to be used for their collage. Once dry, they cut different shapes out of their paper to combine to make their own Eric Carle animals.
I love how colorful and unique these turned out!
Second Graders learned about warm and cool colors as they created wax resist fall landscapes. Using warm or cool colored crayons, they outlined their landscape. Than students painted over they crayon using the opposite (warm-cool, cool-warm). The resulting landscapes had amazing contrast and texture.
Third Graders studied how Claude Monet's oil landscapes. Students then chose a scene and used crayons and watercolors to used color to show the effect of light.
Fourth Grade learned about Pop Art as they studied Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. Students
then chose a piece of candy (just in time for Halloween) to draw 4 times for their Warhol style composition. Students had to play around with scale and orientation in order to find a pleasing composition for their drawing. Lastly, students experimented with complementary and analogous colors as they used oil pastels to color their drawings.
Fifth graders learned about observational drawing as they created a fall inspired still life. Then, students had to use complementary and analogous colors instead of white and black in order to add value to their drawings.
...and so we conclude color theory! Next stop, line
