Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Color Wheels and Abstract Art (what do you see?)

Last week the kids had a chance to explore the relationships between primary and secondary colors by mixing their own and painting with them.



This week, with everything dry, they had a chance to arrange their painted shapes onto color wheels. It was neat to watch as they realized that the relationship between the colors produced a rainbow circle. Colors all around, no beginning or ending!








Then we moved on to an abstract coloring project. The kids were asked to draw a "squiggly blob", crossing and recrossing the line they were drawing. Eventually we connected the beginning of the line to the end to make fully contained shape. Then the kids colored in all the little internal shapes with markers. While coloring, we kept a look out for anything that began to "appear" in the abstract shapes that they drew. The kids spotted a fish, a whale, faces, a sad hunchback monster with a boot (!), a fossil, a whale, a giant eye, a cat and of course a dinosaur! Not only that, but at the end of class we spent some time rotating the drawings to see what else we could find. The kids picked their favorite "right side up". Now all of today's art work is hanging in the classroom halls in MMS!










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