First Grade Art

1^st Graders drew close-ups of scarecrows in an environment. The scarecrows were positioned in the foreground as the lowest thing on the page, making it close to the viewer. To make their scarecrows look inanimate they were positioned with their arms straight out to the sides and their mouths were “stitched.”  But, besides that, anything goes…hat/no hat, boy/girl, pants/dress etc. Environments included farm buildings, crops, and animals.  All objects in the picture were colored hard and solid with crayon.  The sky will be painted with watercolors.

Kindergarten Art

The Kindergarten painted deer walking in the snow. Using white paint, they established their horizon lines and painted all the ground beneath these lines. Horizons could be flat, be covered with hills, or even form a valley.  After the ground was completed students added one or more deer or deer families, trees, footprints, and anything else they felt would make the scene complete. We learned that things placed on the horizon line would appear smaller and things placed near the bottom of the page are closer to the viewer and so would be larger.

Sooooo cute!!!

Kindergarten Art

On the first day of art class Kindergartners learned they could draw everything in the whole world by just combining lines and shapes. On our second meeting they began a directed line drawing of a lion in an environment. Directed line drawings help the children with their listening and direction following skills. We discussed the parts of the lion’s body in terms of shapes and line types. They chose a position for their lion (sitting, lying down, or standing) then added an environment to make their picture tell a story. Their vocabulary is enriched as they create an overlapping environment for their lion(s) and add the horizon line last adding more depth.