I was so excited to see this idea of Circle Painting!! I first learned about it at Barbara’s Thought of the Day and then at We Heart Art. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. for this wonderful idea. We are making several collaborative canvases with this technique and they are going to be raffled off at our end of the year school FUNdraiser. The kids had a blast creating these paintings. This is the first video I have edited using Imovie! I’m planning on making two more canvases with an older class to keep at school for display.
Discover more from Art is Basic | An Elementary Art Blog
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Marcia,
The paintings are beautiful and I am so envious that you know how to make movies with an IPhone! Owl City is one of my favorite artists and I love that song. Thanks for sharing!
:)Pat
Wow – so much energy there – I love the bright colours – fabulous!
Thanks! Pat, the movie was made by taking video clips with a regular digital camera and then editing it on the computer on the Imovie program. I don't have one of those fancy phones, lol 🙂
These are beautiful! The children did such a nice job. Did you wait until the end to give them black paint to make some accents? I would love to try this sometime.
This looks like a lot of fun and love the way they do not come out looking like mud ;} I can't wait to try this myself. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks! Yep, the black was only taken out when everything else was painted… just for little accents at the end.
Oh wow… these are beautiful! What a great idea for a school fundraiser! Your video is fantastic! I love the music you put with it too. Great job! So happy you joined us 'in the studio' to share! Thank you! 🙂
These are great! I am totally stealing your idea. Thank you!
Everything on your site is so beautiful. Thanks for sharing. I am pinning this collaborative work!! 🙂
I'm going to show this video to my students if we find time to work on circle paintings! It's been floating around at the back of my head for a while now…
Such a fan of your site. I did paper pulp art with my kiddos– Thanks for the memories!
Gianne at cowsgomooandducksgoquack.blogspot.com
linky love there. =)
oh my word!!! That is some FINE ART!!! I'd love it if you would share this with my readers for Fun Stuff Fridays. Would you please link up? http://www.toysinthedryer.com/2012/02/14-days-of-valentines-fun-stuff-fridays_10.html
love the idea of auctioning them off!!!
joanna from we heart art
http://www.ourartlately.blogspot.com
These are beyond beautiful!!! Love your video! Your students did a great job! Would love to try something like this with my students! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
LOVE this idea! How did you prevent the muddying of colors? Did each student work with only one color? Or did you just make sure that one brush stayed with one color? Was this all done in one class period?
I had the kids keep the same brush with the same color paint. It was all done in one class period. Thanks for writing!
Pingback: Collaborative Class Artworks -
This is beyond wonderful, and I want to try it.I have a few questions:
1) How large were the canvases?
2) How many children on each canvas, or did you have them walk around the room with their paint brushes to add the color they had on all the canvases?
3) Would this work on a large piece of tag board (we have it at school)
4) How did you set up the project? Did you show them any symmetry, or mandalas?
5) Do you think this would work with second graders?
Thank you so much, Marcia
1. The canvases were large.. maybe 2 feet wide?
2. There were about 6 or 7 kids working on each canvas. Ideally maybe 5 per canvas.
3. I have definitely done this on tagboard or posterboard.
4. I did not show them any symmetry or mandalas. I think I just demonstrated for them how to start with a circle and then add designs around it. I may have also shown them a video about “circle paintings” on Youtube. I can’t remember!