Kindergarten Art

We began studying the work of Henri Matisse last week. The students all looked at several examples of his work and I told them stories of his life and his creative process. We looked at the paper cutout work from his later life as an artists and talked about the colors he used, the way he drew with scissors and how the shapes and colors talked to each other. Each child had a pile of colored paper, scissors, glue and a large sheet of black paper to use as their background. We are working on cutting complex shapes with the scissors and controlling the amount of glue used to create the composition. Work will continue today with more scissor skill lessons and the students will complete their compositions today.