Cleveland School First Annual iCAN Art Show!

We had our first annual Art Show here at Cleveland Elementary School this past Friday and it was a wonderful turn out! Thank you to everyone who helped and attended, and a BIG thank you to the Incredible Children's Art Network!!!

Kindergarten: Mouse Paint

Mouse Paint

In the beginning of the year our Kindergarteners learned about the primary colors, red, yellow and blue.  We began talking about the colors using the book Mouse Paint by Ellen Wash.  Following our reading students were given a cup of red, yellow and blue paint, and a piece of paper divided into 6 squares.  Together we began to mix the colors to make all the colors we find in the color wheel.  We mixed them one at a time, then painted each square on our paper a different color.  Once our paper's dried we used tear dropped shaped tracers for our mice.  Students traced the shape, cut it out and placed it onto their paper, in the same order as our color wheel.  Finally, we used back markers to turn our shapes into mice, just like our friends in the book Mouse Paint.

Kindergarten: Jackson Pollock Hands On Painting

Student’s began this project by analyzing samples of Jackson Pollock’s work.  They identified the lines in the painting based on a previous line study they had completed the week before.  Students then learned that Pollock painted his line drawings by throwing paint on large canvases on the ground.  In order to create similar style artwork, kindergarteners were given a plastic tray with different four different colors of paint.  Each cup of paint had a marble placed in it.  Students put their paper in the tray, used a spoon to place the paint-covered marbles in the tray, and then rocked the tray side to side.  This motion guided the marbles across their canvases, each one creating a unique design.

Kindergarten: Primary Colors Mondrian Collage

Kindergarteners began this project by looking at some of Mondrian’s paintings. They looked in depth at Broadway Boogie Woogie and discussed how abstract art can make a viewer think of different things. They created the collage by cutting out different sized squares and rectangles from colored construction paper and layered them on top of each other. They finished by dipping craft sticks in black paint and adding black lines on top.