Friday, February 19, 2016

We Heart Jim Dine!

Pop Art by American Artist, Jim Dine
Pop Artist Jim Dine uses colorful, playful brushstrokes to create his bright paintings that often have the image of a heart.  I love teaching about him in February when we celebrate Heart Health Month and kids have Valentines on their minds.  We reviewed warm and cool colors in this project, and noticed how Jim Dine used contrasting warm and cool colors to create the heart shapes in his work rather than outlines.  They created watercolor and wax resist paintings on paper to start.  They cut out a heart shape and saved the negative space to glue down to a second painting.  They experimented with stamping tempera paint on top to create an extra layer of paint.  Here is Jim Dine's work, followed by the work of our talented Kindergarteners!

Sample of Dine's work that inspired our project


Kyle, Eli and Jonny showing off their work

Kassandra, Kindergarten

Max, Kindergarten

Olivia, Kindergarten

Emmit, Kindergarten

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