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Monday, February 24, 2025

Kindergarten Self-Portraits

 

All About Me

 Kindergarten Self-Portraits



A self-portrait is a picture made by the artist. 
Today the artist is you! 


Instructions Day 1 :
Intro. Video
Demo Video-Drawing a self-portrait:
Draw Face and Trace in Sharpie
Materials:
12x18 white paper
pencil & eraser
Mirror
Sharpie

Intro Video: Self-Portraits
At the end of this book we will the intro video we will self-portraits painted by famous artists.



Self-Portrait Demo.









Monday, February 17, 2025

All about Me

 

My Favorite Things


I am an Artist-These are a few of my Favorite Things 


Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...



What were some of the children's favorite things?


Artists are inspired by things they like and do. 
Today we are going to be drawing some of our favorite things. 

Supplies:
Large piece of paper
Sharpie or marker
Crayons/markers to color after drawing (optional)

Demo Video





What are your favorite things?
Favorite animal?
Favorite food?
Favorite season?
Favorite insect?
Favorite activity?
Favorite toy?
Favorite game?
Favorite outfit?
Favorite movie character?
Favorite holiday?
Favorite people?





Circle the drawing of your most favorite thing!
Color if you have time!

Share/Reflect: Share your one very favorite thing



                                                                       Love is my Favorite Thing


Friday, February 7, 2025

All About Me - Collections

 collection is a group of things

What kinds of things do people collect?

Why do people have collections?



Today you will make a collage. You will cut pictures out of  magazines to make a collection of your own. 










How did you decide which pictures to choose for your collection?










Friday, January 31, 2025

My Bedroom

 My Bedroom

Responding

7. Perceive and analyze artistic work.

A. Perceive

Identify uses of art within one's personal environment

Do you have any art in your home or in your bedroom? Do you have a lamp that is shaped like a dinosaur or a unicorn? A designer made that. 

We spent several weeks exploring buildings in art class. But everything so far has been about the outside.  Today let's explore the inside of houses.  The inside is certainly just as important!







Draw a Picture of your Bedroom!
Do you have any art hanging in your house/room? 
Why is it there?




Bedroom Furniture


IT's My Room




Art with Mati and Dada: Van Gogh


Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Expressive Houses 2

 Expressionist Houses

Responding

8. Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

A. Interpret

Interpret art by identifying and describing subject matter.


Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing details. Why do you think that the artist uses expressive colors? How would you feel if you lived in this town? 

 

Expressionists were a group of artists that wanted to show their feelings about the things they painted, not just to make a copy of the things they saw in real life.


Franz Marc painted this picture of two blue horses. Are horses blue? No, but Franz Marc painted them blue to show the world how he felt about horses. He felt that they were special, almost magical creatures.


Wasilly Kandinsky painted these houses using vibrant colors, a lot like the paintings we looked at last week by Enest Kirchner. Do you  see  in the foreground of the painting the rocks colored purple, green and blue?  And notice the beautiful sky in the background, i see pink, red, blue, green and yellow. Almost a rainbow sky. He must have loved painting skies very much.



Karl Schmidt-Rottluff painted this portrait of a woman sitting in a chair. When he painted this over 100 years ago, many people did not like it. They found it shocking that he used so many colors, and said, that's not what a person looks like. They didn’t appreciate his imagination and creativity. He didn’t listen to them and kept painting, and now his artwork hangs in museums all over the world and is loved by many.




When we paint our houses, we are going to use expressionist colors.


Tempera Paint using expressive color


alternate painting lesson tempera block

My Blue is Happy: A Book About Expressive Colors


Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Explore Buildings and Communities: Expressive Houses Day 1

 Expressive Houses

Create

2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.




C. Creating Interactions with Art

Create art that represents natural and constructed environments

Have you ever seen a beautiful house or tall skyscraper and thought "I would like to paint a picture of that"

Or maybe you have made up a dream house in your mind, and would like to share your idea with others.

Many artists show houses in their work. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner liked to paint houses uses very expressive colors. That means not real life colors, but joyful, interesting and exciting colors.

What colors do you see. Can you use beautiful colors to design a an imaginary or realistic house?

Can you add details like you drew last week? 

Windows     Door     Roof     Chimney     Doorknobs     Shutters     Fence     Flowers     Garage


"The Green House"


"Houses in Dresden"



"The Big Orange Splot"


Art lesson


Wednesday, January 8, 2025

AMI day-Kindergarten Art

 

AMI Day Kindergarten Art Lesson- Air Dry Clay


 2 Ingredient Air Dry Clay






Artists are very creative people and can come up with lots of ways to make art, even if they don't have a lot of supplies!
Have you ever used something that isn't an art supply to make art? Maybe cardboard, masking tape, a sock, leaves...

This week we can explore that idea by making our very own clay! The best part is it only uses 2 ingredients that many people have at home, Flour and Hair Conditioner. Watch this video...




Recipe:
1/2 cup Flour (or cornstarch)
4 Tbl. Hair conditioner (or lotion)

If you enjoyed this activity, there are many other recipes for making clay. I found several by doing a google search for 'air dry clay recipes'.