Second Grade Matisse Collage

Second Graders finished discussing Matisse and his artworks filled with color and shapes.  We also looked at the book When Pigcaso met Mootise, a humerous book which they enjoyed and shares some information about Matisse and his style of work.  I saw this project on another Art teacher's blog and could not wait to try it with second grade!

In this project, students learned about positive and negative space as well as organic and geometric shapes.  Inspired by Matisse, students created their own collages using these four art elements.  They turned out well, each class created such unique pieces!

Kindergarten Paul Klee Cat

Kindergarten looked at the artwork of Paul Klee.  We looked at the many shapes that he utilized within his pieces and we discussed what we saw.  I was inspired with this project idea from another art teacher's website, we focused on Klee's cat painting and we created our own shape cat.  The students used Oil Pastels to add color and we focused on the warm colors.  After the cats were colored in, the students outlined with black pastel and painted the background with black tempra paint.

The students had a lot of fun creating their own cat and the many shapes inside.