Kandinsky color mixing

This week Kindergarten learned about the importance of color in creating an emotion or mood in art. We began the exercise by drawing a time when they were either happy, sad, scared, angry, or excited. Next they then had to fill in the picture with a color that best fit the emotion of that particular situation.

We then looked at abstract art by Kandisnky and discussed what emotions we felt when looking at his artwork. His art is a great example of how simply color and line can stir the imagination and create emotion without using recognizable objects. We practiced our color mixing skills by creating our own versions of Kandinsky's famous concentric circle painting. Students were given the challenge of creating as many different colors as possible out of only the three primary colors, red, yellow, and blue.