Chalk Pastel

Children often immediately respond to the smooth tactile qualities and vibrancy of chalk pastels. They are soft and easy to use, and each shape and color can be modified with additional layers. Each grade level was encouraged to use their fingertips to blend original hues on toned paper.

Processes and techniques: mark making, blending, creating secondary hues from primaries.

Emphasis on the Elements of Art: shape, texture, and color.

California Arts Standards for Public Schools

CREATING—Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 

1.2 Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals. 

Essential Question: How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? 

Process Component: Imagine, Plan, Make

TK: Clouds and Rainbows

Artist Connections

Eric Carle, Little Cloud, 1996 (Picture Book) 

John Constable, Stormy Sunset, 1821-1822

Franz Marc, Blue Horse with Rainbow, 1913

Kindergarten: Peacocks - Pattern and Color

Artist Connections

Eisaku Wada, Peacock on a Wall, lithograph on cardstock, postcard canceled in 1905

Danielle M. Heitmuller, The Peacock Who Wanted To Be A Star on Vimeo, animation produced at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, 2014

1st grade: Expressive Portraits

Artist Connections

James Berry (Poet) and Anna Cunha (Illustrator), A Story About Afiya, 2020 (Lantana Global Picture Books)

2nd grade: Flowers Close Up

Artist Connections

Georgia O’Keeffe, Heliconia, Crab’s Claw Ginger, 1939

Georgia O’Keeffe, Hibiscus With Plumeria, 1939

Georgia O’Keeffe, Pineapple Bud, 1939

3rd grade: Intersecting Circles - Light and Color

Artist Connections

Sonia Delaunay, Electrical Prisms, 1914

Sonia Delaunay, Rythme, 1938

4th grade: Flora and Fauna

Artist Connections

“Amates. Identity Bark, is a selection of amate paintings from the Albrecht Collection of The Mexican Museum, one of the most recent additions to its permanent collection. Themes of flora and fauna, mythological animals, and local narratives are highlighted in the show. The pieces belong to the regions of Puebla and Guerrero; in them, one can appreciate a myriad of styles by the artists and artisans who drew them.” via AMATES. CORTEZA DE IDENTIDAD | The Mexican Museum

5th grade: Emotive Landscapes

Artist Connections

Richard Mayhew, Good Morning, 2000

Richard Mayhew, Indigenous Spiritual Space (Ser. No. 7), 1993-94