A couple of weeks ago I went with a friend to the Rosamund Felsen Gallery at Bergamot Station here in Santa Monica to see Kim MacConnel's paintings. The
colors, the
lines, the
design -- FABULOUS!! What a great inspiration! MacConnel is a San Diego artist and I am so happy to have discovered his work!
So, using this inspiration, this week 2nd graders will be creating abstract dimensional collages using warm and cool colors. I have a collection of images from Google that I will be sharing with them, along with paintings by
Kim MacConnel on display here. Students will make warm and cool mini-art using markers and then arrange them (overlapping) on a black illustration board.
I'll have them use small blocks of foam core board to raise the art to different levels.
cool. i like the multi-dimensional aspect to the final piece.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I hope these little guys can accomplish it!!
ReplyDeleteI love this lesson, thanks for sharing ! Can I ask you ?. I'm just starting to teach art to the kids (7-10 years old), how you make them doing the abstract forms ? I found that kids starting to draw something real,- objects, people, etc., how to make them be concentrate on abstraction ?
ReplyDeleteI will be so grateful for the answer,
best regards,
Olga D.
Before starting to draw I had the kids look at (and talk about) the art of Kim MacConnel at this website:
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We talked about the shapes and variety of line thickness. I also pointed out that each of his lines or patterns started at the top and went all the way to the bottom of the paper (no stopping in the middle)!!! I think one reason kids were successful with this was that we were working on small squares, too.
thank you !
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