Tempera Still Life
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze Sunflowers by van Gogh and learn how artists paint expressively. Students identify warm colors, shapes, and texture; mix red and yellow paint to create shades of orange and draw round and oval shapes and straight and curving lines to make flowers and a vase. They paint a still life with flowers using thickened tempera.

Oil Pastel & Watercolor Resist
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze Lines and Marks by Kandinsky and discuss how artists use symbols and colors to represent objects. They identify symbols, geometric shapes and horizontal lines, draw designs and patterns with oil pastel, and draw hidden objects using the “magic white” technique. They mix and paint washes of primary colors over their pictures and create abstract picture stories using oil pastel and washes.

Cut Paper Mask
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze a picture of a Native American Kachina Doll and learn about how Kachinas are carved. They identify lines and patterns, describe how symbols are used to represent ideas, and sketch faces. They cut and layer geometric shapes for facial features and create cut-paper masks to represent nature spirits.

Fingerpaint Seascape
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze Renoir’s painting Children on the Seashore and learn how Impressionists showed light as it appears in landscapes. Students identify realistic and impressionistic parts of Renoir's landscape, describe his use of Impressionist-style brush strokes, color, and expressive line and make green paint by mixing blue and yellow. They paint seascapes with expressive lines using their fingers as tools.

Colored Marker Miniature Landscape
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze a reproduction of a miniature hunting scene showing a landscape with animals and hunters and compare the landscape with places they have been. They identify patterns made by repeated lines and colors, draw horizon lines and miniature people, houses, trees, birds, and clouds and sketch stick figures. They create a miniature landscape that tells a story about their own adventures and decorate the borders with patterns and colors.

Paper Mosaic
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze the Byzantine mosaic The Court of Empress Theodora and learn how mosaics with ceramic tessera were made long ago in the Byzantine Empire. They learn about reproductions of original art, describe the repetition of lines and colors in a work of art and sketch fish using contour lines as outlines. They arrange and glue paper tessera in patterns and create paper mosaics of fish.

Oil Pastel Portrait
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze Grant Wood’s American Gothic and his use of realism in portraits. They identify vertical and horizontal lines, learn about facial proportions, and sketch facial features. They create portraits of families or friends using oil pastel.

Clay Plaque
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze the carved picture on a Yoruba ivory box and learn about ivory and the reasons for making decorative art. They identify the figures, patterns and balance in the carved box, describe the use of pattern and form in it and sketch outlines. They create three-dimensional plaques with hand prints and patterns.

Tempera Printed Screen
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze Toyohiro’s Four Accomplishments No. 2 and learn about Japanese art and calligraphy. They identify bird’s-eye view, identify vertical and diagonal lines and foreground, middle ground, and background and describe repeat patterns. They sketch trees, mix colors to represent seasons, print with corks and sponges, and create a screen of trees with colored leaves to represent the seasons.

Yarn Weaving
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze a reproduction of a tapestry and learn about the unicorn myth from the Middle Ages. They identify the materials used and learn how weaving is done on a loom. They describe the way lines, shapes, and colors are repeated to create a peaceful scene and weave small tapestries, using simple looms and a variety of weaving materials.

Chalk Pastel Landscape
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze Rousseau’s Jungle Scene and imagine the story told in the jungle. They identify the horizon line, vertical lines, and contrasting colors and describe the foreground, middle ground, and background and the use of overlapping shapes to create depth. They sketch leaf shapes; draw landscapes with leaves, flowers, and jungle animals, and create pastel chalk and cut paper landscapes with hidden animals.

Abstract Paper Collage
Kindergarten Artist

Students analyze Mondrian’s Composition No. 2. and learn how he painted abstract compositions. They identify vertical and horizontal lines and rectangular shapes, describe how Mondrian balanced shapes and colors, and balance their own lines and colored shapes. They create an abstract paper collages in the style of Mondrian using paper, scissors, and glue.