So Wassily Kandinsky is one of my favorite artists and this lesson came about because I wanted to do something with the kids based upon this painting- Farbstudie Quadrate.
Since we are always practicing fine motor skills and trying new ways of using materials I thought it would be good to use a torn paper approach to this project.
This is a lot of prep work on the part of the teacher but the end results make all the work well worth it!
Materials needed:
You will need about 20-30 pieces in various colors of construction paper for each student.
One large piece of drawing paper or construction paper. I use a 12 x 18 piece of construction paper.
Glue
How to Make Your Kandinsky Torn Paper Collage:
First, glue down 6 or 8 of the small pieces of construction paper so that the background is colorful.
Next, tear eight large circle-ish shapes out of the small pieces of construction paper. I have the kids fold their paper in half and then tear a half circle on the fold. This works better than just trying to tear a circle out of a piece of paper!
Repeat the folding and tearing creating smaller and smaller circles.
I tell the kids to pick different colors so that each rectangle has a layer of various colors on it. For example, don't use pink on pink (unless the shades are different of course!).
Finally, using oil pastels we added a little more color to our layers.
Here are a few of the finished pieces:
I want to try this as a painting lesson but I haven't done it yet. Maybe this year.....
