Jim Dine 4 Hearts Art Project

Here's another fast and easy Valentine's art project with an art history component. 

I saw this on an Instagram reel from @scholtenart. I altered the last time a bit.

This was the first project I did with a new set of Grade 4-6 students. Honestly, it was easy for alot of the older kids, but the boys, especially, needed help and reminders with cutting and gluing and all those fine motor skills that boys sadly seem to lack compared to girls. This took my classes one 40 minute period to complete. 

This is the first year I've tries tempera paint sticks and they are fantastic! It's like drawing with a really slick, smooth, colorful glue stick!

I pre-cut heavy white paper into squares (9" x 9") and then pre-cut coloured photocopy paper into squares that would fit onto that in 4th (I can't really explain math, lol)

Students covered the white paper with patterns using paint sticks.

Then they chose two squares of a colour, stacked them and cut out a heart shape. 

Review positive and negative space.

Glue stick these onto the background like so. Then we used black and white pencil crayons to add some shading and highlights to the hearts. 

I love how fun and colourful these turned out!

 

Jim Dine Inspired Hearts

This was a fast and furious 40 minute period lesson!

It's great for discussing both line, pattern and colour.

We first looked at the heart paintings by Pop artist Jim Dine.

Grade 4-6 students used tempera paint sticks to create a colourful patterned background 

on 9 x 12" white paper. Then they created a heart template from folded scrap paper. They traced this onto their background, outlined it using black oil pastels, and blended it for shading. I love how these turned out!

 

Positive & Negative Space Hearts Art Project

Another great lesson I saw on the Instagram account of Lauralee Chambers @2art.chambers.

I taught this lesson to a class of Grade 4-6 students. It took 2 classes to complete.

The first class, students created a bleeding tissue background on small squares of white paper. 

I use Spectra brand.

I lay out the colours like this so students can easily choose which ones they want.

This takes one class. The next class, students draw onto their colourful background, a variety of sizes of hearts. They need to fill all the available spaces. Then they colour in the background in Sharpie.

Open a window- it gets stinky!

These look so cool and dramatic when they're finished!!