Studio-Pastel

• Kindergarten.
  Standards:
  1PE Describe the meaning in the marks they make on paper.
  3PE Describe different ways that an artwork expresses an emotion or mood.
  7RE Recognize that people have different opinions and responses to works of art. 8RE Consider and talk about why people make and enjoy works of art.
  Artist statement: 
  I drew water and a sunset, because the ocean and sunsets are one of my top favorite things to see and be around. When I visit Mexico, I get up at 5 am some days and just watch the sunrise, and of course watch it set later that day. I love sunny days, not only because they put my in a good mood, but because it literally brightens up almost everyone’s day. I use the three primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. It fit perfectly for my sunset and ocean. I used oil pastels and a notebook to draw this, as shown below. Just looking at this picture makes me happy. Kindergarteners are just learning about colors, and have a remote idea, of which is which. At this point, they learned about primary colors and what makes them primary. In kindergarten, the students need certain standards dealing with art. I chose a few above that I would focus on. Firstly, obviously they need to know that art and markings on a paper and what it means. I would give them unlimited ideas and ways they could draw, for example, for these primary colors I would want them to focus on drawing something that makes them happy, which deals with emotions and how colors can represent emotions. They would only be allowed to use these three colors, but that still gives them freedom to draw almost anything. I will give them limited directions, just draw with these three colors and draw something you enjoy or that makes you happy. When it comes to art, students do not have to have a bunch of set rules or guidelines, they should have the freedom to draw what they want, so they can be as creative as possible without having strict rules. One problem students may have with this is implementing all three colors. Yellow and orange are usually more happy colors, so they may have a hard time using blue to represent something happy as well, because it could also stand for sad or angry or etc. So I would challenge my students to use all three colors to represent happiness or something positive.