Kindergarten - Unit 2 - Winter birds

Project Focus:  Combining shapes to make a new object, texture and landscape

This project began by a discussion on texture.  The students then used a dry paint brush and black paint to paint scratchy textures on white paper.  Next, they created texture by drawing patterns on paper then painted over it with watercolor paint.  They later used this to create their land and birds.  Next, they learned what a landscape is - a picture of land.  They create the trees from their textured paper and the snowy horizon line by tearing white paper.  Finally, they created their winter birds after being introduced to one of my favorite artist, Charley Harper.  He started off as a graphic designer and it shows in his paintings of birds.  The students could really see how he used geometric shapes to create their birds similar to the way Harper did.