First Grade
Concentric Shapes
are shapes that perfectly fit into one another, and are EXACTLY the same as the shape around it.
SHAPE is one of the ELEMENTS OF ART
Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art.
Kandinsky focused on the Element of SHAPE and COLOR in his artwork
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art
Book by Barb Rosenstock
Project 1: Kandinsky concentric shapes
option 1
Students will paint and organized arrangement of CONCENTRIC SHAPES. Student can use a variety of CONCENTRIC SHAPES
Project 1: Kandinsky concentric shapes
Option 2
Students will paint and random arrangement of CONCENTRIC SHAPES. Student can use a variety of CONCENTRIC SHAPES
Abstract Paper Weaving.mp4Project 3 : Abstract paper weaving
Students will listen and paint to music, the process of painting that inspired Kandinsky's work. Students will fill create two abstract artworks filling the page using line, and shape. Students will use these paintings to create a weaving using the over, under, over pattern
Collaged Color Monsters.mp4Project 3: Monsters Love Colors
Students will use a marble and box to mix primary colors to create secondary colored textures for the fur of monster collages.
Book to reference: Monsters Love Colors By Mike Austin
What is a collage?
PRoject 4: Its Okay To Be different Self Portrait
Using the Primary and Secondary colors, Students will create painted paper to use to create a collage of themselves.
Jim Dine
is an (born June 16, 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.) American painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and poet who emerged during the Pop art period as an innovative creator of works that combine the painted canvas with ordinary objects of daily life.
How to draw a paint brush inspired by Jim Dine.
Project 5: Jim Dine Inspired Paint brushes
Students will create sketches of black and white paintbrushes, similar to the style of Jim Dine. Students will use watercolor to mix the PRIMARY COLORS into the SECONDARY COLORS
SHapes
are created but beginning and ending a line is the same spot. The line connects, creating a shape.
Art_Shapes.pdf
PROJECT 6: Family portrait using simple shapes.
Students will sketch their family portrait in pencil using simple geometric and organic shapes. Students will trace their family portrait and add color on the people and in the background
Overlapping
means to extend over or cover partly.
TEmperature Color Families
Patterns are designs that repeat!
Patterns are made of ...
1. line
2. shape
3. Color
Project 7: Overlapping Letters
In this project student are creating the illusion of space by creating overlapping letters. Inside the letters students use oil pastel to create pattern from one color temperature family. Around the letters students chose a different color temperature family.
Robert Indiana
was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His "LOVE" print, first created for the Museum of Modern Art's Christmas card in 1965, was the basis for his 1970 Love sculpture and the widely distributed 1973 United States Postal Service "LOVE" stamp.
What is a pattern?
Project 8: Postive Prints
In this art project students create basic prints using line and pattern on a simple stamp. Students will identify pattern as repeated units lines, shapes or colors.
Students will choose a four letter word of positivity to collage on top of their prints.