Kandinsky Art Project 2025
Kandinsky Art Project
We have been learning about Wassily Kandinsky this term. We found out:
- He was from Russia.
- He was a teacher before he became an artist.
- He used paint for his artwork and liked to mix colours.
We looked at lots of Kandinsky's paintings and closely analysed his "Squares with Concentric Circles" painting. We loved this painting and decided to have a go at creating one of our own.
However, we decided we could use more than paint. We could do each square in a different type of media.
Below is our artistic process for creating our own Kandinsky inspired artwork.
Step 1: Tissue Paper
We used tissue paper for our first square. We realised we had some that was already cut into squares and circles. This helped up to grasp the idea of "concentric circles". We had to be really careful, putting runny glue on tissue paper is tricky.
Step 2: Felt Tip Pen
For our second square we used felt tip pens. This was the first square where we drew around objects to get our concentric circles, this was harder than we thought it would be.
Step 3: Chalk (Smudging)
The third square was completed in chalk. We liked how it might a much lighter colour on the white paper. We LOVED smudging the chalk with our fingers to fill in the gaps.
Step 4: Paint (Colour Mixing)
Our final square we painted, just like Kandinsky. But first we had to learn about colour mixing. We learnt that:
Red + Yellow = Orange
Red + Blue = Purple
Blue + Yellow = Green
We all mixed our own secondary colours and used these to paint our final section of our Kandinsky artwork.
Our Final Pieces
