This past Friday, the kindergarteners said goodbye to Australia and hello to Asia!
I showed students examples of Chinese ink paintings and talked about value (the range from dark to light within a color). Students told me that in order to make a color lighter you should add white paint and to make a color darker, you should add black. Since we were using ink, I demonstrated how to get a dark, medium and light value using water. All students watched me paint some bamboo that I brought in, since nature is often the subject of Chinese art. Students worked while I played traditional Chinese music, and stroke by stroke they created paintings of a bamboo forests showing a great range of value and attention to detail. Afterwards, they explored books about Asia countries such as, India, China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. I love these!
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