I am an Artist-Kindergarten Self-Portraits

Kindergarten Self-Portraits

Lesson and pictures are from Cassie Stephens' blog. Cassie Stephens is an art teacher in Nashville, TN. Click here to see the full lesson. 

The Colors of Us by Karen Katz

Instructions:

Day 1 Background

Day 2 Draw Face

         Cut out 

         Glue down 

         Paint Hair

Day 3 Cut out Shirt
          Glue down
          Draw small Drawing

Desiging a cover for the Music Program

Today you are going to design a picture that could be used on the Christmas music program!

The themes this year are:

Santa, Elves, Reindeer, Clocks, and Dance Party

1. Have students try recall the names of some of their songs for their music program.
2. Talk about the above themes and how to make art that can be used on the cover of them music program. (It must be drawn in pencil, traced in sharpie, and the pencil marks erased afterward.
3. Demonstrate on paper taped to whiteboard, how to draw christmas themed subjects using basic shapes. Demo. tracing lines with a sharpie so that they know not to color with it. 
4. Remind students to draw a background...is it outside on the rooftop, at the North Pole, or by a Christmas tree? What are the characters doing? 
5. Distribute papers and pencils. Have students write their name on the back. 
6. Play Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as they get settled in. They may sing along :)
7. Pencil, Trace Lines carefully with sharpie, and erase pencil marks.

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Thinking and Working as Artists-Chalk Pastel

What can I do with a Chalk Pastel?

A chalk pastel is made from a powdery substance that is used for drawing and comes in many different colors.

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Chalk pastels have a soft look, and can be blended easily.

Mary Cassatt-Little Girl in a Big Hat

On the Cliff-Theodore Robinson

Lynn Morgan-The OrangeWoods

Today we are going to explore and discover how to use chalk pastels!

• Two ways to hold a pastel, tip and side
• Changing pressure 
• Layering colors
• Blending with one finger

Share/Reflect:

Describe some colors made with pastels?

What happens when you press harder/lighter when you color with a pastel?

What happens when you put one color on top of another?

What happens when you blend with your finger?

Extra Art-Tempera Paint-Changing Colors and Mixing

Link to Lesson
Diane Jaquith's Choice Art Blog:Self-Directed Art Choice-Based Art Education

Extra Art-Kindergarten-Stick Trees Mixed Media

Some Artists Use Natural Materials to make Art

What did these artists use to make their art?

Patrick Dourgherty

Andy Goldsworthy

Sharon Nowlan

Earlier this year we arranged stones to make art. 

Today we are going to use sticks as part of our art!

Materials Needed:

Sticks

Markers 

Paper, Scissors and Glue sticks

Beans and buttons

Paint

1st Day of Art

Welcome to art class! 

We are going to have an exciting year together, full of discovery and art making. We will draw, collage, paint, and sculpt. We will discover what it means to be an artist and how to work like an artist--because we are all artists!


What do artists do anyway?
What kinds of things do they make art with?
What do artists make pictures of?
How do artists work? (quietly, they think...)







Some of you mentioned that artists draw. Today we are going to draw a picture of a person. What things do you need to draw if your are drawing a person?

Share Time:

• We talked about working like an artist earlier today. What does that mean to you? 
• Did anyone work like an artist today?
• What can we do to work like artists?
• Describe the person you drew.

Painting Dots (Extra Art)

Dots, Dots are Everywhere!

Artists Sometimes make art using lots of dots

Yayoi Kusama’s ‘The obliteration room’

 Pointillism

 Aboriginal Dot Painting

What Kind of Art Can You Make Using Dots?

Lesson link to The Artful Parent

You can find dots in the world around you.
Where can you find these dots?

Video: Mati and Dada-George Seurat