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Complementary Color Quilt Paintings.


Colorful geometric painting with a central star and patterns of orange, blue, green, and black squares and lines, resembling a quilt.

Complementary Color Quilt Paintings
1st Grade

Key Concepts:  What are quilts?
                          What are complementary colors?
                          What are patterns?

We previously had done a fabric quilt square and I wanted to tie this project into their study of quilts already.  We learned about the color wheel and complementary colors. The 1st graders chose a pair to paint their square.  I had pre-drawn the rectangular rings around the center with pencil.  They painted them in with alternating complementary colors.  The next class period, they used any color oil pastel to draw patterns on top of the paint. 

Colorful geometric drawing with yellow, blue, and purple patterns, including hearts and triangles, by "Alessandra." The artwork resembles a quilt.

Colorful square artwork with blue and orange layers featuring hearts, squiggles, and smiley faces, resembling a quilt. Name "Sophie" in bottom corner.


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About Marcia Beckett

Marcia is an elementary art teacher and loves painting, drawing, sculpture, art journaling and clay. Her blog, Art is Basic, features many exciting art projects for kids.

2 Responses to Complementary Color Quilt Paintings.

  1. Gloria says:

    Those are very nice. I definitely like the colors used. I like the idea of painting a quilt on canvas. That is food for thought. I just went to Beverly's Craft and Fabric store and they had the canvas on sale at 50%, so I bought a huge canvas 24 x 36, and some 16 x 20's at half price. Good deal. Thanks for the inspiration.

  2. Mary says:

    I really like your approach to the art of quilts. I am a HUGE fan of the Gee's Bend quilts and would love to do a project based on them one day.
    Thanks for this post!

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