After our first graders learned how to properly use the primary colors to make secondary colors and the routines of cleaning a brush each time they needed a new color, they were ready to paint REPRESENTATIONALLY (since we were working a lot in the style of non objective art). Before starting our last two paintings, we looked at some of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's paintings and briefly discussed the movement of impressionism. We learned that this new type of art making started in France, by an artist named Claude Monet after painting the famous Impression and Sunrise, which helped coin the name of the movement impressionism. These artists were rebelling against super realistic paintings and instead wanted to paint their impression and capture a moment in time. We discussed how these artists often painted outdoors and because of that, had to paint very quickly before the light could change. Students even concluded that these artists probably touched up their work back in their studios.
Claude Monet, Impression and Sunrise, 1872
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, A Girl With Watering Can, 1876
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Promenade
To act as a scaffold to their final painting, which was going to show students doing something they enjoy outside, we first had to become familiar with making our bodies and defined a self portrait as a picture of our self. Because we were working from our imagination, we did not need mirrors and started out by using white and brown to make our head (to match the color of our skin) and neck and then added on the shapes of our torso, arms, legs, feet, arms, and hair. Once we got all out big shapes down we started to add details such as facial features, patterns to our clothing, accessories etc. We tried to add anything that made us unique to our paintings (type and color of hair, freckles, favorite jersey, or even glasses). The last step was mixing vibrant colors for our background.
Student Self Portraits from Imagination
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