4. Artists worked
in groups to
brainstorm
and draw
symbols that
best
Did you know that symbols are
just pictures that communicate
represented
ideas?
our
kindergarten
5. After we drew our
symbols, we explained
our drawings to the rest
of the class.
6. After looking at and
discussing the US
flag, the Virginia
State flag, and
even some pirate
flags, we designed
our own flags with
words and
symbols.
7. Using symbols
and colors, we
each designed
our own
personal flags
with fabric
markers and
white cotton.
8. Did you know that there are two basic
types of shapes in art? We compared
and created ORGANIC and
GEOMETRIC shapes by cutting with
fun scissors to design a flag for Fuzzy
the class bear.
9. Who ever heard of homework for art? Yep, it’s true! Kindergarten
artists worked with their families to create a Family Flag that used
symbols to represent their cultural heritage, hobbies, favorite foods, and
even places they love to visit.
12. Ninni’s art incorporates
her love of mosaics and
is often large-scale.
One of her most well-
loved sculptures can be
seen at its permanent
home on the lawn at
McGuffey Art Center.
13. In art, a technique is another
trick we can learn and
practice to create new art.
For our fish project, we
learned six new watercolor
techniques: straw
painting, plastic wrap, resist
with crayon, salt, graded
wash, and sponge painting.
14.
15. Using our new watercolor technique knowledge, we
brainstormed the many types of fish we might see in the
ocean.
16. Using the resist, salt, and wet-on-wet techniques to create the
fish.
17. How lucky we
are to live and
play in a place
with so many
talented artists
making art!
This week, we
walked to
nearby Firefish
gallery to visit
with artist Sigrid
Eilertson.
Sigrid shared
her amazing
masks and
animal
paintings with
us, and we
18.
19. Kindergarten artists use
themselves and each other as
models as they learned to draw
the human face step-by-step.
*Did you know that your face is five eyes
wide? Your ears are as long as the
distance between your eyebrows and the
bottom of your nose? Your eyes are
halfway down the front of your head?
20.
21. After reading some books for inspiration about feelings and
emotions, artists drew oil pastel portraits to communicate a mood they
were feeling.
22. Adding watercolor to communicate a mood or
feeling.
*An artist’s most convenient model is often herself or himself. We took a
peek at some famous artists and their self-portraits to create one-of-a-kind
mood portraits for this project.
23. Kindergarten
artists took a side
trip to see some
very colorful
portraits in paint,
where we
discussed colors,
expressions, and
moods that we felt
when we looked at
the art.
24. Making
the
Beasts:
drawing
monsters with
We researched lots of
colored pencil
different monsters and
on black paper.
wild things in books to
create our own “wild
beasts”.
25. Step 1. Trace leaves from our scavenger hunt in the park.
31. Where else can you find a great building to draw but in your own front
yard? Kindergarten artists were introduced to simple shapes in
architecture by tracing the CBI Synagogue from across the street…
32. …and then, we moved in for a
closer view of building details from
the gate and steps.
33. The goal of the architecture unit was to help kindergarten artists see that
many parts can make up the whole. We learned it’s a lot easier to design
and build a house, temple, skyscraper, or tower when you know how to
put simple shapes and forms together.
35. The hard part came next: drawing what we built.
It’s not always simple to draw 3D forms, but our
efforts paid off!
36. For our neighborhood prints, we used self-adhesive
foam shapes to “build” a printing plate. With this type
of printmaking, the surface of the plate has high and
low points on the surface, called “relief”.
37. Once we
“built” the
plates, we
inked them
and pressed
paper on top.
Using our
fingertips, we
transferred the
inked image to
the paper to
make a print.
38.
39. Our final architecture project combined teamwork, pasta and marshmallows (!) to
create some delicious designs that stuck with us.
42. Before we could get down to the business of creating our own work of
art for the CBI community, we needed a little more background
information…
Setting off on a hunt for examples of art in our CBI neighborhhod.
43. Our journey took us down side streets…
The THUMB!
Amazing inked animal drawing!
47. Artists used stencils and a new wiping technique with
chalk pastels to create hand silhouettes.
48.
49. There’s a happy mural
where we play every
day…have you ever
noticed the mosaic
mural at McGuffey
Park?
First we drew the
images we saw in the
mural and then made
crayon rubbings of the
donors’ names and
mosaic tiles.
50. This is a common Hebrew way to say
“welcome”, and it’s the theme for our
mural.
After acting out “welcoming”
situations, we sketched our
ideas for images of
welcome for the mural.
51.
52. A sneak peek of our creation!
Thank you for sharing in our artistic journey!
53. This special project would not have been
possible without the very generous financial
support of Santina Zanelli and David
Kaufman, parents of Ilana and Gabrielle.
Funded in loving memory of Grandpa Karl
Kaufman, who loved what was special in each
child.
