Our Artist Study Continues: The children continue to be interested in different types of art and painting. During the fall semester we focused on Joan Miro and created art in his style. The next artist we began to explore was Wassily Kandinsky who is well-known for paintings which contain a variety of shapes. Looking at art for inspiration We discussed how we thought the paintings were created and how we could make something similar. The children were very interested in the first painting and thought it looked like "space and planets." Since the children were very excited about the painting on the black background we decided to focus our next art experience on creating our own paintings in a similar style. We talked about what we could use to make the shapes and how the artist was able to put so many colors together without the colors getting mixed up. One of the child...