Castle and Sun

 

A few years back I did a collage project with year 1 students based on Paul Klee's 1928 painting 'The Castle and the Sun'. You can see my post on that project HERE.

'Castle and Sun'. Paul Klee. 1928.

I recently revisited this iconic panting with year 2 students. Students were asked to "build" their own castle using a pencil and ruler to draw stacked geometric shapes to create walls, towers, doors, windows etc. We began with orange paper and students then used oil pastel to colour the shapes individually before outlining their drawing with black pastel.

 

Paul Klee Style Collages

My grade ones created these collages by gluing triangles of coloured paper together to build castles inspired by Paul Klee's (1879 -1940) 1928 painting 'The Castle and the Sun'. This proved to be much more difficult than I expected and I got pretty tired of cutting coloured paper into triangles but I love the results.

Paul Klee Style Portraits

 

This project is inspired by Swiss artist Paul Klee's (1879-1940) painting  'Senecio' (1922). My grade ones are learning about Paul Klee this term as their first introduction to a bit of art history.

We started by recreating this famous painting by drawing a Klee style face in pencil. (They traced a paper plate to get a decent circle).

Students then used a roller to apply some orange paint to their paper.

Once dry, the children used chalk pastels to add more colour and texture to their portraits and finally outlined their drawing with a black marker.