Miro paintings3/30/2023 ![]() It’s really empowering for children to create a work of art that resembles nothing familiar.ĪRE YOU A SPARKLER? These lessons and over 300 art lessons are available inside the Members Club. The focus here is creating lines that form shapes and being able to express yourself through line and color. Once the paint colors were applied, children went back over any black lines that disappeared under the colored paint.Īlthough I did this lesson with my sixth grade students, it can easily be introduced to earlier grades. We talked about white space, whether or not to paint a background and the saturation of Miro’s color palette. Then, using a tray of dry tempera cakes (regular tempera is fine, but I used the cake trays for simplicity) children painted inside all the shapes. ![]() This is a wonderful, expressive way of creating line (no pencils here, please) so try it even though it can be a little bit messy. On a sheet of 12″ x 18″ white paper, children painted lines and shapes with a small tip brush and black tempera paint. The children really identified with Miro’s style and created their own stories from lines, shapes and color. Then, we dissected the lines and shapes to see if we could identify the story that Miro wanted to tell. I displayed a few Miro paintings and we talked about whether or not they were appealing to us. For little ones, I like to implement a basic line technique that teaches children that when you bend and curve lines, they form shapes.įor my older students, the fun wasn’t lost on them. I love teaching Miro as his art is so engaging. ![]() Many of his paintings combine lines and colors that create wonderful shapes that may or may not tell a story–depending on your perspective! ![]() Joan Miro, a Spanish artist who studied in Paris, is best known for his whimsical abstracts. ![]()
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