With our "I Belong" unit wrapping up and after learning about our classroom cultures, we dove in deep into Yayoi Kusama's artwork. She is a Japanese contemporary artist, who was obsessed with pumpkins, dots and mirrors. You can check out her artwork here: http://www.artnet.com/artists/yayoi-kusama/ The kiddos and I studied her art and tried to replicate it in our own artistic way. First we watched a short video on Kusama's life/ art. Then we began using a pumpkin stencil to draw lines and polka dots inside. The stipulation of this art project was that each student had to use three different kinds of lines and at least one kind of polkadot. Here are some picture of our artists hard at work using pencil first!! Next we went out pencil markings with permanent marker: After that, we painted over top of our marker with water color paints. The kids were allowed to choose one or two colors to use! Once they were dry, we pasted them to black paper and hung them up on the bulletin board. We even got a little crazy and decided to create our art piece into an interactive art exhibit by painting black polka dots on real pumpkins!!
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