Art Lesson w/ Ms. Jennifer: Wassily Kandinsky

Let’s express ourselves by creating a color study in the style of Wassily Kandinsky. Next week for part 2 of our Kandinsky artist study, we will focus on music inspired art creation.

About the Artist:

Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 16, 1866 in Moscow, Russia. He grew up playing multiple musical instruments. He was inspired by the colors of nature and sounds of music. He felt that music could be imagined as colors, and that colors and shapes could be interpreted as sounds and feelings. He once said that "Everything starts with a dot". Today’s inspiration artwork, “Squares with Concentric Circles” was just a sketch that Kandinsky made to look at how placing different colors next to each other would change the look and feel of each color.

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Materials:

• Any colorful art medium, such as paint, crayons, oil pastels, or markers.

• Paper

• Brush and water if using paint

Watch Ms. Jennifer create her Kandinsky inspired color study here:

Instructions: 

1. Divide your paper into 8 equal rectangles or squares.

2. Begin with a dot of a different color in each rectangle.

3. Paint in a target pattern, making concentric circles around each dot, alternating random colors.

4. Fill the remaining space of each rectangle with a different color than the outside of the target shape.

music by Bensound.com

*******Stay tuned for next week, where we use Kandinsky’s example of creating art inspired by music.

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