Color Theory and Artist Study, Kandinsky and Mondrian Artist Study, Types of Line, hotsell Elements of Art

I am so excited about my new Color Theory and Artist Study Collection!


The color wheel, sometimes called a color circle, is a circular arrangement of colors organized by their chromatic relationship to one another. The primary colors are equidistant from each other on the wheel, and secondary and tertiary colors sit between them.

Color is one of the most important parts of creating and understanding art. Colors affect the way we feel about a work of art. Different colors can make us happy or sad, calm or excited. Colors can blend together nicely, or contrast in a jarring way. They can be bright or dull. The color wheel is very important for artists when creating a work of art for selecting colors and mixing colors. Learning about the color wheel helps us understand art better.
This interactive collection is designed to help children build an understanding of Color Theory and the Color Wheel while building language, literacy, and fine motor skills!

The full collection includes 11 reference cards that descibe each concept in clear and concise langauge. Then, using the wool balls and wooden tags children can easily sort colors into categories of primary, secondary and tertiary, warm and cool, complementary and analogous. For added fun and fine motor work, children will enjoy moving the wool balls with bamboo tongs.

"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites." Marc Chagall

This collection includes: Birch wood color wheel, 12 wool balls, color word wood tags, color theory vocabulary wood tags.
Piet Mondrian Artist Study

In this lesson children will learn about the art of Piet Mondrian and Kandinsky, view two of their works, and then create their own inspired masterpieces. I developed these materials to accompany my Types of Line lessons in a effort to help children view Line as an Element of Art before they use lines to write letters and numbers.

Piet Mondrian, one of the founders of the Dutch modern movement De Stijl, is recognized for the purity of his abstractions and methodical practice by which he arrived at them. He radically simplified the elements of his paintings to reflect what he saw as the spiritual order underlying the visible world, creating a clear, universal aesthetic language within his canvases. In his best known paintings from the 1920s, Mondrian reduced his shapes to lines and rectangles and his palette to fundamental basics pushing past references to the outside world toward pure abstraction. His use of asymmetrical balance and a simplified pictorial vocabulary were crucial in the development of modern art, and his iconic abstract works remain influential in design and familiar in popular culture to this day.

With these materials children can practice vocabulary for horizontal and vertical, long, short, up, down, above, below, thick, thin, square, rectangle, primary colors, red, yellow, blue.

Wassily Kandinsky Artist Study

In this collection you will receive the Kandinsky biography cards and two cards depicting his work. The cards are printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.

The woven bamboo basket includes a collection of materials for building lines, shapes, and designs! Materials include 2cm and 1cm wool walls, wool yarn, satin ribbons, and cotton string, wood blocks, colored match sticks... With each set I create I add new and eclectic pieces to increase engagement and to extend the play.

Children will use the thick white canvas to build their transient masterpiece! With these materials students will be able to explore Type fo Line though the eyes of Kandinsky!

You will also recieve: Piet Mondrian biography card and two cards depicting his art work. The cards are printed on cardstock and laminated with 5ml lamination for durability. You will also receive a white canvas and a collection of lines (in different widths and lengths), squares and rectangles (in the primary colors and in a variety of sizes)

I have used a thick sturdy felt for hotsell the white "canvas" and for the black lines, colored squares and rectangles. The pieces are displayed in the woven bamboo basket.