Lil Wayne-ie Cakes

Happy V-day out there, I hope your heart is filled with love and warmth. I wanted to share with you a project that I've decided to add to all of my classes after introducing it to my kinders last week. We studied Wayne Thiebaud because frankly, I love valentine's day and cake. I cut out some triangles and parallelograms for the students to glue onto the paper and then instructed them in creating the cake slices around the shapes.

My little guys then decorated the slices of cake in their own unique way. They look delicious! Anybody wanna skip over to Bleeding Heart Bakery with me for a little happy?

William H. Johnson

William H. Johnson was an interesting artist to learn about. His artwork took on many forms but the folk art style paintings of everyday life were fun to talk about and finally inspire work from the kids. They had a choice of a portrait of a single person or two people.

The kids and I talked about the time constraint that we had in finishing these portraits using oil pastels (when you want the color to be solid the coloring can take quite a while). So the students colored the faces first followed by the body (most of them) and then the background, horizon line first, outline background details, finally color in the background. I like how this turned out for different kids who each work at a different pace. They all look completed and unique!