Kindergarten Explores Line and Color

Kindergarten began the year learning about 2 of the most important elements when beginning to make art: LINE and COLOR. Lines are what define the shapes and forms we see. All drawing starts with a single mark, a line.

We began by reading  Lines That Wiggle by Candace Whitman, and drawing many types of lines across our papers, dividing it up into new and interesting shapes.

Next students were introduced to the PRIMARY COLORS. The Primary colors are the most essential colors because they are the foundations for all other colors. They are Red, Yellow and Blue, and without them the world would be a bleak, blank place.  We read Press Here by Herni Tullet, which features the primary colors getting up to all sorts of antics. We then painted the shapes we had made from our lines using the primary colors, and even mixing them to create the SECONDARY colors, Green, Orange, and Purple. We revisited lines at the end of this project, as we painted as many lines as we could think of over our colors using black.

Next we dove deeper into mixing Primary colors to create Secondary colors. After reading Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh, we painted 6 circles, 3 using the primary colors, and the other 3 mixing the primary colors to make Orange, Green and Purple- the Secondary colors. These colorful circles later became birds, as we added details using thin Sharpie markers and feathers!

To see all of the finished works please visit https://sites.google.com/site/mrsrart/student-galleries.