Art Gallery 2018

Once a year, my school hosts a small art gallery for the students. Depending on the amount of work I have decided to create, students will be working on their art for the art gallery from August to the end of September so we can view it on October. 

For the big project that every student at my school collaborated for we learned about Thankyoux and his amazing murals. Students loved watching a video about him working on a mural. Mural's like this aren't as common in Korea as they are in LA so watching an artists in progress was new to them. They were also surprised he was young and still alive. 

For this mural, I designed and printed a cube shape on a paper. Students drew and colored abstract shapes and drawings with oil pastels. Then they painted the rest of the cube with watercolors. On the top of the cube they painted either red, blue or yellow depending on their age group.

The 4 years old students worked on cactus art. We were inspired by the popular cactus illustrations I have noticed many illustrators work on. I taught students about stencils and we used stencils I had prepare before hand to draw a cactus and a flower pot on two separate pieces of colored paper. After they were done cutting, students colored and decorated their cactus. It was simple and fun!

The 5 years old students were inspired by Jackson Pollock and action painting. We read the book Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan to understand better Jackson Pollock's process since I wanted to focus on how he painted instead of what he painted.
Students mixed two acrylic colors on a canvas and a drew and painted a black line. Using yarn, students mimicked the quick hand motions Jackson Pollock used to do when he was painting. Those quick movements made the tree branches. Students cut and glued small leaves from recycled paper to finish our Pollock inspired trees.    

The 4 years old worked on the giraffe you see on the corner. They learned to glue yarn pieces to circles that would be the circles in the giraffe. They also painted the paper yellow as a group. 

The 5 years old worked on the jelly fish. They crumpled up paper, opened it and drew the lines they saw with a black marker. After they were done drawing, they colored in some of those shapes. I drew and cut out a jellyfish and students glued the cut out pieces on the paper.

The 6 years old students worked on the loooooong snake. They used different colors to paint whatever they wanted on pieces of paper. Once the pieces dried, I gave different papers to different students and they drew patterns, lines and shapes on the colored paper.