Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Matisse's "room with a view"


Matisse's Interior with Egyptian Curtain
Second graders continued the theme of "-ishful thinking" as we examined the colorful window view paintings of Henri Matisse. We spent a few minutes imagining and visualizing window views before we dove right in to the tempera paint, reviewing tints, shades and color mixing right on our painting papers. Day 2 involved adding the oil pastel details - we learned how using different media gets different looks. Beauties!



4 comments:

  1. The students obviously had a great time with this - I especially like the one with the orange swirl border!

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  2. Excellent work. I love how freely 2nd graders can work without getting too caught up in "what's right."

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    1. Having done the Ish book just before really helped with that!

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  3. It's no secret that Matisse is my favorite. Nice lesson- great results- so vibrant and colorful!

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