Showing posts with label warm and cool colors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warm and cool colors. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
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Monday, January 30, 2017
Inspired by Monet's Waterlilies
What color is water?
First and second grade artist learned about Impressionist painter Claude Monet. We talked about how Monet broke from the art traditions of the time by painting outside in nature and trying to capture the beauty of sunlight at different times of day. We looked at examples of his many waterlily paintings.
Google Arts & Culture has some very cool tools for getting up close and personal with famous works of art.
You can take a virtual tour of Monet's waterlily paintings at the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris using Google Art Project.
Click here to check it out!
You can use the ZOOM tool to get close enough to one of Monet's Water Lily paintings that you can see each impressionist brushstroke.
Click here to check it out!
Friday, January 13, 2017
Portraits Inspired by Sandra Silberzweig
Sandra Silberzweig is a contemporary artist from Toronto. She has a condition called synesthesia, which is a crossing of the senses. This means that she may "hear" colors or "see" music.
Here is a poem she wrote called "When you are a synesthesia goddess ...... your day dreams are always in color"
I am a synesthesia goddess
I have no fear of color
It lives in my soul, dances in my heart
Spills out of my fingers flowing down a canvas
I can see your aura
Taste the color black
Feel the chill of the green wind
Smell blue butterflies
Hear the yellow rain
Life is never boring when inspiration is always around
Click here to read more about Sandra Silberzweig, the work she has done to share her experience with synesthesia and how she has turned this condition into a driving force for her creative work.
Silberzweig's paintings are bold, colorful and imaginative. She primarily paints stylized, patterned-filled portraits.
Third and fourth grade artists looked at examples of Silberzweig's artwork, then created portraits inspired by her unique style. We used chalk pastel and oil pastel and focused on choosing warm and cool color combinations and creating patterns.
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Paul Klee City Collaborative Mural
First and second graders learned about Paul Klee's painting "Castle and Sun," and created collages inspired by this painting. Click here to see this work! Then we used cardboard scraps to construct this collaborative city mural.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Inspired by... The Scream!
First and second grade artists created their own versions of the famous painting and pastel drawing "The Scream," by Edvard Munch. Find out what makes each student want to scream!
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