Kindergarten and 1st grade have begun the year learning a little about the Elements and Principals of Art. The very basic foundations of art are line and color. We began the year talking about color, what colors we know then moving into the primary and secondary colors. Primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. We learned that these colors cannot be made by mixing paints, we must start with these colors in order to mix to get secondary colors. The secondary colors are orange, green, and purple. In later lessons we discussed how red, yellow, and orange are warm colors as well, and green, purple, and blue are cool colors. Lots of color learning!
Color Wheels and Color mixing
Lines, lines, lines!
We spoke about how important color is in art, and right along with color is lines. Lines show space, shape, volume, and more. We see lines all around us! Students looked around the art room and found lines on the fans, decorations, vents, etc. We talked about zig-zag lines, waves, horizontal, vertical, spirals and then came up with our own kinds of lines. We practiced drawing lines first then during our next class we constructed line sculptures by folding construction paper into some of the lines we drew. Our bases are actually mat board for picture frames, generously donated n various sizes by Frame to Please in Endicott, thank you so much!