Now that's quite a title. We did in fact go over just that with the kids today. I really love impressionism and the colors are beautiful. Though impressionist artists used such a different approach to creating color shifts, shades, and subtlety. Their technique at the time was shockingly unique. Many artists didn't try to hide their brush stroke, but instead adored it and highlighted it. One of the techniques they used was called pointillism, and at the time the term was used to describe their work in a negative connotation, but today all of that has subsided. How they used color was significant too, and so we discussed the basics of the color wheel with the class today. We talked about primary colors, a little bit about secondary colors, and glazed over tertiary color. Our main focus was on analogous color. Analogous colors are those colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel, such as, yellow, orange, and red. Green, blue, and purple are also analogous colors. The children picked three analogous colors to paint their canvas using the pointillism technique. We gave them special round sponge brushes to create the dotted technique, and encouraging them to fill the entire canvas while still being able to see all three colors. It was a small challenge since it is a departure from the traditional way to use a brush. The kids did a wonderful job filling in their canvas with their analogous colors. We topped it with a monogram. They had to cut out their letter glue it down, and fill the letter with buttons. It was a great exercise in scissor skills, gluing, and planning with buttons of all sizes. Some were creative and began stacking some of their buttons to create more relief to their "painting".
This week we also brought some clay for the children to play with if they finished their project early. I also told them if they created something I would take a picture of it for them and post it to the blog so here are some of the sculptures they created out of clay. It was a great day!
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