Hurry, Hurry, Back to School Night

Always feel pressured to have artwork up for back to school night. Sometimes this can be a challenge, depending on what we are working on in the art room.  The elementary school has btosn the second full week of school. Thought I would share my current bulletin boards, especially after being featured on Bulletin Board Ideas. The Picasso's are from the 2nd graders. First time I have done this project with younger kids. They enjoyed this. Think next year may lay some ground rules for the painting process.

We started with shape in all of the grades. In kindergarten we looked at Piet Mondrian. Using shape sponges we created our shapes and outlined with black paint.

One more back to school night this Thursday for middle school. Always glad when these are over. Love seeing all the parents but it is exhausting.

Piet Mondrian, cont.

These projects are from my 4th graders.  We talked about this painting of Piet Mondrian's, Red Tree.  Students were instructed to draw a tree, any style and than choose complementary colors.  One for the background and one for the tree.

Piet Mondrian

All students in the elementary school are studying Piet Mondrian.  For the lower grades we looked at Mondrian's later work.  We talked about what we saw in his artwork- line, shape and color.  The following pics are from our first projects for grades k-2.

These pieces are from kindergarten.  Students were given square and rectangle sponges to use in the primary colors and black paint to create line with a paint brush.

This project was done by my 1st graders.  This project is from Teach Kids Art.

These are from my 2nd graders.  The glue wasn't dry yet, hence the spots.  Students used black construction paper with "foamy" sheets that I cut into different sizes.  They were instructed to make abstract art and to leave spaces between the pieces.  

I will have Mondrian trees from the 3rd and 4th graders soon.