1st Grade - Lines and Color
Goal: Show me how you can create your own art using lines and the primary colors
Media Centers Open: drawing, paint, collage, fiber arts, special project table: printmaking We started by learning about lines. We looked at lines all around us, in artworks, did "linercises" (line exercises), and worked in the drawing, paint, and collage centers. Later I added the Special Project Table where they learned how to do printmaking. Piet Mondrian (artwork pictured to the right) is a great artist to learn about lines and to introduce the primary colors, which we learn about later. He was inspired by jazz music and a bird's eye view of the busy streets of New York City in the early 1900s. We talked about what it means to be inspired by something, like things around us or another artwork. We listened to jazz music and they were able to cut up and draw or paint on maps of Rochester for their art. When we started learning about the primary (red, yellow, blue) and secondary (purple, green, orange) colors, I added the fiber arts center. Students learned simple hand stitching using latch hook canvas, a plastic needle and either the primary or secondary colors of yarn. The last step was to actually mix the primary colors to make the secondary colors. That was a review from kindergarten but is still like magic every time they do it :) |