Art Docent Lessons
arranged by grade
Kindergarten
- Paint Poem by Olean: Mouse Paint, emphasis on color, primary/secondary, painting.
- Look! Look! Look!- empasis: shape, detail/collage. Based on the book. Kids looked at art pieces through viewer to find shapes and patterns. Art making: collage of pre-cut shapes.
- Andy Goldsworthy. Sculpture using natural materials, spring or early fall. Photos.
- Black Scratch pad. Line, color. Oil pastel on paper, thin tempera layer and scratch with stylus.
- Printmaking. Foam and print. Garden theme- sharpie drawing on paper, colored in. Find one element and draw on foam. Line, pattern.
- Mardi Gras Masks.
- Drawing: lines, color to create mood. When Pigasso met Mootise. Dividing head in half-one side bold lines/color vs. opposite.
- Mondrian Paintings. Line and color. Primary colors.
- Warm/Cool Colors pattern hand design.
- Joan Miro- string and foil paintings. Line, color and balance.
First Grade
- Bead Mosaic.
- Self-portrait
- Still-life, blind drawings.
- Andy Warhol, pop, monotprints. Warm/cool colors
- Warm/cool color head painting.
- Fish prints.
Second Grade
- Day o dead/ Mexican prints
- Joseph Cornell boxes, thematic
- Frank Stella, 2d 3d.
- Rodin, clay, 3d
- Klimt, rhythm, pattern, balance, shapes
- Calder mobiles
- Snowflakes
Third Grade
- Carl Linneus, line, color, watercolor
- Pop-up cards
- Monochromatic prints- Seattle landscape, perspective
- Sumi-E, line, landscape
- Button Blanket
- Mobile, Calder, line 3d
- Native American: mask, ovoids and u-form shapes, button blanket
- Pointilism
- Faces/Vaces, negative positive
- Torn paper landscape
Fourth Grade
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Fifth Grade
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