Mondrian, DeStijl Painting, Flint Hill ES 12-13

The project is DeStijl Paintings made with 12 x 12 white paper, pencils, rulers, red, blue and yellow tempera paint, black construction paper strips and glue.

Each Student Gets:

1. 1 piece of newspaper. Volunteers please bring this to your session. This is to cover desk to prevent paint drips and so students have a base for applying glue to their black strips without getting glue on desks.
2. 1 piece of 12 x 12 white paper. One per student please.
3. Use own rulers or pass out from the cart
4. Use own pencils.
5. Distribute paint by color. Paint will be in gallon containers with pumps. One primary color per paper plate. Students will share paint. One yellow, red and blue set per 4 or 5 students.
6. Sponge brushes and Q-tips are used to apply color to their designs. The angular sponge brushes are shared, one goes with each color. No water will be distributed in class, so keep colors separated for each sponge brush that is used. Sponge brushes can be washed and dried with paper towel after your session is finished.
7. Distribute glue from gallon container on paper plates. Use glue sparingly. Kids can use Q-­tips to apply glue to back of black strips. Then they can be glued down on their designs 

Students start by creating a design with parallel and perpendicular lines with a ruler and pencil. This can be as intricate or simple as they’d like. For younger grades we recommend a simple design with fewer criss-crossing lines. Once design is set, students can decide what rectangles and squares to fill in with the primary color paint. A little paint goes a long way so PLEASE USE PAINT SPARINGLY. Once rectangles and squares are filled in, students can start adding the black strips. They may have to cut the strips to different lengths to fit their design. Hair dryers will be on the cart if you think they need them, but we did not wait for our paint to dry before gluing the strips when creating the samples.