Master Artist Study

As the culmination to our month-long color inquiry, the full-day students learned about two artists who LOVED using lots of color in their works; Jackson Pollock and Piet Mondrian.

The children enjoyed creating their own artist-inspired masterpieces using similar techniques.

It was very exciting to use a real canvas as opposed to
paper for our Pollock-inspired painting.

 Pollock used a lot of color in his action paintings;

he dripped, poured, and splattered watered down paint

and worked with his canvas on the ground

so he could walk around it as he added colors.

The paint actually takes form in mid-air 
before landing on the canvas.

 To help the paint to fall freely from the brushes and cups, 
we watered it down a bit.

Painting in our bare feet was especially fun!

Looking pretty colorful so far!! 

The second group of children added 3 different colors right on top of the original colors. It finished it off just perfectly!!

 

  

Ta-Daaaaaa!

Perhaps we will donate this to the auction this year!!