Miró Inspired Paintings

2nd Graders began this project by looking at work by Spanish painter, Joan Miró.

  

Students really enjoyed looking closely at his work, making interpretations, and creating stories.

We learned that Joan Miró would sometimes get ideas for his work by drawing automatically.  He would let his pencil flow, and then see what images he could find in his work.

We used a similar process!   The classes that were lucky enough to have art on a sunny day, went outside and traced shadows.  Others drew automatically, or drawing without thinking.



We all then turned our lines and shapes into new things!


Students completed their works using a combination of crayons, oil pastels, color pencils and watercolor paint.  They created titles and wrote about their work, too!