Jim Dine Art!

So this post is a little late, I had executed this lessons back in Februrary around Valentine's Day of course. Jim Dine is a well know artist who's art focus's on the subject of hearts. His art is very kid friendly and easily adaptable to elementary art lessons. I used his art as the focus for both a 1st and 2nd grade lessons. The second grade lesson was a print making lesson, focusing on visual texture and pattern. The 1st grade lesson we learned about warm and cool colors. I asked the students to use warm colors for the inside of the hearts, and cool colors for the background squares. The media we used were crayons and watercolors. Some followed these directions, others not so much, but the results were quite varied none- the less. Here are some of the results.