Art Adventure Kindergarten - Lesson 1 Artists and Color Objective: To introduce the idea that artists create original art and show how an artist mixes colors. A) Introduction: Today we are going to talk art and the artist that creates those works of art. With your imagination you create forts, you take snow and create figures and tunnels, you imagine things in your world a certain way and with your hand and tools you create what you see in your mind. Artists also look at the work around them and create an original way to make art by drawing, painting, cutting, digging, shaping and so many other ways. Does anyone know what “original” means? Something that has not been done before and is not copied is original. Artists will also use colors to add to their art. They will always start with three colors red, yellow and blue and then mix those colors to create more colors like orange, purple and green. They will also use colors like white to lighten their colors and black to darken their colors. Let talk about a few art terms: B) Vocabulary: (if the vocabulary words have been provided on poster boards, refer to them here. Otherwise, write the words on the board before you start the discussion on vocabulary) • Art: Something created using the imagination, such as a painting, a musical composition or poem • Artist: A person who creates a work of art • Original: Something that is fresh and unusual, not a copied • Copy: An imitation of something original • Primary color: A color that cannot be made by mixing other colors (red, blue and yellow) • Secondary color: A color made by mixing primary colors C) Artwork Title: A Sunday on the Grande Jatte (jaht) Artist: George Seurat (su-rah) Details: Painting • What do you see happening in this painting? • If you were to go visit a beach today, would it look like this picture? What is different from what you would see today? • Instead of mixing paint colors and brushing them onto the canvas, George would take his colors and place dots of colors next to one another. Do you see dots or are you too far away? What happens if you take a closer look, do you see dots? For afar you see one color, but up close you see hundreds of color dots. Page of 1 4
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Art Adventure Kindergarten - Lesson 1
Artists and Color
Objective: To introduce the idea that artists create original art and show how an artist mixes colors.
A) Introduction:
Today we are going to talk art and the artist that creates those works of art. With your imagination you create
forts, you take snow and create figures and tunnels, you imagine things in your world a certain way and with
your hand and tools you create what you see in your mind. Artists also look at the work around them and
create an original way to make art by drawing, painting, cutting, digging, shaping and so many other ways.
Does anyone know what “original” means? Something that has not been done before and is not copied is
original.
Artists will also use colors to add to their art. They will always start with three colors red, yellow and blue and
then mix those colors to create more colors like orange, purple and green. They will also use colors like white to
lighten their colors and black to darken their colors. Let talk about a few art terms:
B) Vocabulary: (if the vocabulary words have been provided on poster boards, refer to them here. Otherwise,
write the words on the board before you start the discussion on vocabulary)
• Art: Something created using the imagination, such as a painting, a musical composition or poem
• Artist: A person who creates a work of art
• Original: Something that is fresh and unusual, not a copied
• Copy: An imitation of something original
• Primary color: A color that cannot be made by mixing other colors (red, blue and yellow)
• Secondary color: A color made by mixing primary colors
C) Artwork
Title: A Sunday on the Grande Jatte (jaht)
Artist: George Seurat (su-rah)
Details: Painting
• What do you see happening in this painting?
• If you were to go visit a beach today, would it look like this picture? What is different from what you would
see today?
• Instead of mixing paint colors and brushing them onto the canvas, George would take his colors and place
dots of colors next to one another. Do you see dots or are you too far away? What happens if you take a
closer look, do you see dots? For afar you see one color, but up close you see hundreds of color dots.
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Art Adventure Kindergarten - Lesson 1
Artists and Color
Reinforcement Activity
Materials provided:
paper plates
red, blue, and yellow paint
q-tips
wet wipes
Students Supply: pencil and ruler
Each child is given a paper plate. They will need to use their pencils and rules to divide their plates into 6 evenly
sized sections. Each child will receive red paint, blue paint, and yellow paint. Ask each child to paint one section
red with their q-tip. Next, have them skip a section and paint the next one yellow. Then, have them skip
another section and then paint the next section blue, Those are all the primary colors. To create the secondary
colors we will start to blend colors. Let’s first blend the yellow paint and the blue together in one of the empty
sections. What color did everyone get? You will notice that some of you got a lighter green and some of you
got a darker green. That is because some of you used more blue and some of you used more yellow which
changes how the green color turns out. Next, let’s mix the blue paint and the red paint together in another
empty section. Does anyone know what color we will get? If you guessed purple, then you are correct. Again,
some of you got a lighter purple and some of you got a darker purple. It’s just because you all mixed the paint a
little differently. That leaves us with two colors. We need to mix the yellow paint and the red paint in the last
section. Some of you might already know what happens when we mix these two colors together. We should
get a pretty orange color. Next year we will talk more about how to make the colors lighter or darker, but for
now we will enjoy learning about how we make secondary colors from the primary colors. Just as a reminder:
red, blue and yellow are primary colors and we blend red/blue to make purple, red/yellow to make orange, and
blue/yellow to make green.
If you have a few extra minutes you can have the kids look around the room and find different primary and
secondary colors.
NOTE: Make sure the kids put the project somewhere to dry before they take them home.