Kinders are exploring the design theme of VARIETY learning, for example, how artists use VARIOUS kinds of lines---curved, zigzagged, straight, thin---as one way to make artwork look good. (Just as a strong writing has a large vocabulary to choice from.)
In their second project, kinders used lines to draw self portraits, like these.
Meanwhile, in first grade art, students are thinking about BALANCE, how lines (and shapes, and colors) on one part of a painting might mirror lines on the other in a way that is pleasing.
In their Big Bug Discovery Project, students worked to create symmetry in collages that described an imaged insect. Students enjoyed considering the world through a bug's eye view while watching clips from the film 'Microcosmos.'
In the subsequent project, 'Spiderwebs and Spider-lilies' these same first graders are in the process of creating super-symmetry or 'radial symmetry'---an image or design that mirrors itself in 4 or more directions, like the face of a flower or a compass rose.
What do you think is most important to start with in becoming an artist?
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