I love new beginnings and I am excited about your student learning and enjoying art this year.
Our first art project of the year will be painting with pasta.
I like to start off the year by teaching about textures, colors, and shapes and then moving towards projects based on famous artists and their techniques.
So, cooked linguine is a fun object to use for texture. It is soft and slippery and we will use our large motor skills to drag it across the paper or make circles on the paper. We will be practicing our small motor skills by gently pinching the linguine and sliding it through our fingers to remove excess paint. Our paint creation will be in the abstract expressionist family.
Most of our work in the first half of the year will focus on abstract expressionism because these styles are fun for the children to emulate.
Thank you for allowing me to teach your child.
