Kindergarten Rainbow Fish

Kindergarten artists read "Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister, and made their own using crayon and watercolor resist and sequins.

Inspired by "the Goldfish" by Henri Matisse

First and second graders looked at Matisse's goldfish painting.  We talked about Matisse's use of bright colors and patterns.  They used oil pastels and watercolor to observe the resist technique.

Matisse once said,
"I wouldn't mind turning into a vermillion goldfish."

Here is the goldfish by Matisse:

Rainbow Fish

Kindergarten artists read the book "Rainbow Fish," by Marcus Pfister. We talked about the moral in the story and then made rainbow fish using oil pastels, liquid watercolors and shiny paper.