Miró Inspired Paintings

Miró Inspired Paintings

2nd Grade 

Click here to read last year's post and learn more about the process for this project.

Here's a quick recap:

Students began this unit by observing and interpreting works of art by spanish artist, Joan Miró.  Miró created often used automatic drawing as a technique for creating his abstract paintings.  Students tried out automatic drawing themselves, including letting their pencil go for a walk and drawing without thinking.

The resulting lines and shapes were great springboards for student's imaginations.  Now, the thinking! Students "looked into" their marks and discovered all sorts of images from an octopus, to a black hole, to dueling dragons.




After finding their images, students used sharpie, oil pastel and crayon to make them stand out.  They completed these paintings with watercolors and experimented with a variety of techniques.

They made some cool discoveries along the way.

Discovering the saran wrap technique is the perfect volcano texture!

Teamwork!

Stuents celebrated their completed work by sharing with a friend!

Kindergarten Germs

Germs!

Kindergarten

Kindergartners began this study of germs by drawing germs from observation.

Students looked at microscopic images of a variety of germs and drew the shapes, lines and textures that they saw.  They then used oil pastels, watercolor, salt and rice to complete their works with more color and texture. 

 Next up, students created imaginary germ characters using a combination of tempera paint and oil pastels.  Some students folded their papers in half and printed them to make symmetrical germs.  

"This is a good germ.  The blue dots push the germs away."

"Mine has thousands of eyes."

 Be careful, some of these germs can make you sick!

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!