Kindergarten Art

I introduced the students to the artwork of Henri Matisse last week. We talked a bit about his work and how he changed the way he looked at the world and the way he created art. The students were presented with a lesson on scissors and liquid glue application. They were shown a few techniques to cutting both geometric and organic shapes and how to create positive and negative space with their cut outs. Each student had 3 warm colors and 3 cool color sheets of paper to cut and create the composition. We will continue working this week on the compositions and I will introduce building 3-dimensional work with cut paper using the same techniques.