Cardboard Paintings: Exploring Primary Colors

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Last week I fabricated some cardboard canvases for my three-yr former class. They were totally digging the format and each of them painted ii or three or more than paintings. I cutting some pieces big, and some small. I primed some with a light greyness pigment, and some I left unpainted. I drilled holes in the top corners so that the paintings could be hung (the best part). I used tempera paints and mixed a piffling bit of white with the three chief colors, just to make them a lilliputian bit opaque. These picayune kids had never been exposed to the words principal colors, and they didn't know that they could be mixed to make new colors. It was a whole new world for them!

I was able to capture the smile on Martina's face when she discovered that yellow and blue make green, and yellow and cherry-red make orange!

As they got more confident with their painting, they began to comprehend their whole sail rather than merely painting in one spot. Eventually, they all decided unanimously that they wanted but solid color paintings. I don't know why exactly, only I went with it. In the end, when the monochromatic ones were all in a row they looked very absurd and very constructivist, like Alexander Rodchenko. A triptych!

I love how Madsie kept painting pink canvases for her mama.

I will definitely be doing this projection again. The kids loved the cardboard and they loved mixing colors. It would be fun with older kids to set out a all the same life and introduce them to an artistic mode. Similar Gaugin or Matisse…painters who really loved their colors!

xo, Bar

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