Kandinsky Circle Drawing

Wassily Kandinsky | Circle Painting

Grade 1 and 2 students created abstract drawing inspired by Wassily Kandinsky's circle painting. They studied what "abstract" means with looking at Kandinsky's painting. We learned that it is an abstract piece of work because it does not depict something we immediately recognize. Students were asked to create their own abstract composition using circles. First, they worked on the composition by tracing a variety of circles. They were asked to think about placement (overlapping, touching, apart, inside) while creating their composition. Next, they added colors using construction paper crayons. Some decided to used solid color while others included pattern.

 

When we shared the work, we noticed that although we used the same shape and materials, each piece was unique. Beautiful work Grade 1 and 2!

Character Design

Grade 4 and 5 students were working on a Monster Unit in BCC art studio. First class in this unit, they played an "exquisite corpse" game to create very interesting and strange looking monsters. "Exquisite Corpse" game is a collaboration drawing of three people. It is a method by which a collection of images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds drawing of head, body, or leg part of a creature in sequence. This helped their brain be more creative when creating their own creature.

 

After finishing their creature drawing, they transferred the drawing onto a black construction paper. 

Before they colored the drawing, they did a color study using oil pastel, exploring gradation, and cross hatching two colors. They used the color study knowledge to design their creatures.

Here are the finished work by Grade 4 and 5.
Every creature has interesting features that make all of them so unique!

Students also made up a story about their characters and we shared them together. It was so much fun hearing all the stories.

Complementary Colors Organic Shape Collage

Grade 3 artists have been studying shapes and color. For this collage project, they were inspired by the work of Elizabeth Murray. We noticed that she uses many organic shapes and they often have curved and irregular sides.

American Artist, Elizabeth Murray

They also learned that the geometric shapes are simple shapes that we can easily recognize (square, triangle, and rectangle). Next, they learned about complementary colors. Complementary colors are across from each other on the color wheel. They noticed when two complementary colors are next to each other, they stand out. Students were asked to create organic shapes out of construction paper first. Once they had their shape, they used the complementary color to create patterns on top with collage.

Their finished pieces came out wonderfully and they are displayed in the hallway on the third floor.

Grade 1 and 2 artists did observation drawing of twigs. They went hiking during the "Environment and Social responsibility" month and we were building off of that excitement with this activity.

Environment Day Art Activity

Friday Art Activity
The theme of April was "Environment and Social Responsibility".
BCC artists used recycled bottle caps to create collaborate pieces. They learned that they could create amazing artwork using recycled materials and were able to demonstrate the importance of recycling.

Here are photos of the art-making process.

 Here are finished pieces of the day. They are displayed in the lobby and the library.

Bottle Cap Tower

Detail view

"Be Kind to Our Earth"