Last week, I read "Drawing with Scissors" to the first graders, a book about the later artwork of Henri Matisse. The students made keen observations after looking at images of some of his cut outs and I explained that these free form "loosey-goosey" type shapes have a special name: organic shapes. I gave the first graders very few restrictions and told them that they could create anything as long as it had organic shapes. Their artwork could be abstract, or have figures and animals in it like some of Matisse's work (if they could make a free form version of them). They all began with embellishing their background, and they created their first layer of their work.
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