Valentine Hearts in the Style of Jim Dine

To celebrate Valentine's Day and learn about warm and cool colors, our 2/3 class took a look at some of the work of the American artist Jim Dine.

Using black crayon, students first drew a heart shape in the middle of their paper, then added lines across the paper going through their heart. The resulting sections were then filled with warm or cool colors and watercolor paint was added if the artist wished. Click on the image below to see more and be sure to have a Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine LOVE

The artist Robert Indiana's rendering of LOVE in paintings and sculpture has become an icon of 20th-century art. For Valentine's Day our 4/5 students recreated his work with craft sticks. My thanks to Kathy Barbro at the website artprojectsforkids.org for this great project idea. I love how our students always add creativity and make an idea their own! Click on any image below for lots of great results.

 

Valentine Love

Our first graders learned a new technique while expressing their feelings about their love of family. After they drew a crayon heart and wrote some words they connected with Valentine's Day, the students had some extra fun completing their project. They covered the drawings with tissue paper, then "painted" water over the tissue. The color from the tissue paper was absorbed by the drawing paper everywhere they hadn't colored with crayon. The results are beautiful and colorful Valentine sentiments for some lucky family members. Click on any image below to see the rest of the valentines.