Kindergarten Art

We continued our study of watercolor paint this week. I introduced the students to the work of Georgia O'Keefe and presented several of her flower paintings. We discussed how she made a small flower feel monumental and how she used detail, value and color in her work. The students made a choice of which flower from the learning garden they wanted to observe and draw and set out to create their drawing. It is often difficult to get the students this age to draw larger than life, as they are use to scaling down the world in their artwork!  I encouraged them to slow down their drawings and add every single detail they observed. They mixed the colors for their painting using the three primary liquid watercolors. If they completed their first flower painting, they could get an apple or pear to draw and paint. Marked improvement was shown with the color mixing this past week.