Printed + Painted Cityscapes

We have been continuing our exploration of lines in PK and Kindergarten and connected them together to make shapes. We used paint, but this time we did not use a paintbrush or water cups. Instead, we used a new technique: printing! We learned to make lines and shapes using cardboard. 

First we dipped the cardboard into paint, then pressed it onto our paper and lifted it up to make a mark. Dip, press, lift. We noticed that we could connect the lines to make them into shapes, and make different lines by changing the way we put our marks down on our paper. 

PK and Kindergarten artists created busy cityscapes, with tall skyscrapers, apartment buildings, hotels, stores, cars, and even people. We had a lot of fun coming up with our own cityscapes, using our printed lines and shapes to inspire our imaginations. 

We tried our best to fill up our paper and included the sun, clouds and even helicopters in the sky. Some students chose to create a rainy or stormy day in their city.

The following class, we added color using tempera paint. We thought about how to make our colors bright to fill in our shapes, making sure to get plenty of paint on our paint brush, as well as fill in the background. Take a look at some of our printed and painted cityscapes:

Annie, Kindergarten (Segreve)

Charlotte, Kindergarten (Bolton)

Colby, Kindergarten (Mattson)

Elyse, Kindergarten (Beatty)

Hudson, Kindergarten (Segreve)

Jeremiah, Kindergarten (Bolton)

John, PK (Martignetti)

Leo, Kindergarten (Mattson)

Lia, Kindergarten (Tan)

Matthew, Kindergarten (Beatty)

Nareg, Kindergarten (Blackwood)

Shriya, Kindergarten (Segreve)

Zoha, Kindergarten (Tan)