Many of our students in Kindergarten are familiar with the illustrations and stories of Eric Carle books. “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?” are two examples of his popular stories. Eric Carle’s “The Artist who Painted a Blue Horse,” is the book we are using as inspiration for our newest project.
Eric Carle created his illustrations as a collage of cut, painted papers. To do our project, we looked carefully at the color wheel in the art room. If we want to paint with more than one color, as Eric Carle did with his blue horse (there are strokes of purple in his blue horse!), it helps to choose two colors close to each other on the color wheel. Yellow and orange would work together, as would blue and green. Any color painted with white is another option. And if two primary colors mix together, such as yellow and blue, we will also have a secondary color (in this case, green) where the two colors blend together.
Our painted papers turned out as beautiful paintings and they deserve to be shown off before they are turned into animals! Abstract artists work hard to achieve this level of beauty and design with just a few brush strokes. After the holidays, we will be cutting our animal shapes out of our painted papers and painting a background for the scenes. Here are a few examples of our work in progress...
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| Painting by Andrew |
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| Painting by Ayla |
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| Painting by Ben |
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| Painting by Christo |
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| Painting by Holden |
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| Painting by Katya |
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Barbara Levine
Ranney Lower School Art