Rainbow Mosaics
K/1
Woodland Elementary
K/1
Fourth and fifth grade students created cityscapes with oil pastel light reflections. Students drew the building shapes with pencil, traced with black marker, and use oil pastels to represent light and give highlights. Students use watercolor paint for the background, buildings, and water.
Second and third grade students created cityscapes inspired by Paul Klee. Paul Klee was an artist know for his work to be full of color and shapes. Students used several shapes when drawing their cities, and oil pastels and paint to add color.
Kindergarten and first grade students created artwork inspired by Piet Mondrian. Students focused on using horizontal and vertical lines, and using primary colors when painting.
Fourth and fifth grade students created a painting inspired by the famous woodblock print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created the woodblock print between 1829-1833. Students focused on using lines to represent movement.
Second and third grade students created Koi Fish inspired by Japanese art. Students drew the koi fish with pencil, outlined the drawing with oil pastels, and painted the fish and background.
Kindergarten and first grade students created cherry blossom vases inspired by Japanese art. Students focused on several craftmanship skills while completing this project. Students used a stencil to trace the vase shape, then cut and glue onto a background paper. Next, black paint was used for the branches and crumbled tissue paper for the blossoms.
Second and third grade students created farm landscapes. Students practiced using rulers throughout the drawing process, and painting from lightest color to darkest color.
Fourth and fifth grade students created symmetrical paper trees. Students folded a piece of colored construction paper vertically, and visualized the fold as the center of the tree trunk. On the folded paper, students drew the ground line with an animal attached, one side of the tree trunk, and half of the tree top design. The final steps involved carefully cutting out the symmetrical tree and gluing the design on a white background paper.
Kindergarten and first grade students created rainbow mosaics. Students started with a red circle, then ripped paper pieces for the remainder of the colors. The acronym ROY G BIV was used to help remember the order of the rainbow.