Summary:
Mentor Artist Suzanne Joyal and Marindale preschoolers explore movement, texture and creativity through art.
Mentor Artist Suzanne Joyal has just completed a 10-session residency with preschoolers in four classrooms at Marindale School. Marindale houses special education and preschool programs operated by the Marin County Office of Education. Students experimented with drawing, painting, and sculpture. Students engaged their muscles and their creativity while practicing sharing, making choices, sticking, squishing, squeezing, stretching, color mixing, blending, gluing, and so much more.
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- engaging hand muscles & holding a paintbrush
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- The pleasure of shapes, especially with letters on top
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- what is glue? It makes the shapes stay on the picture
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- building with shapes
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- how does Model Magic feel? squeezing, pinching, and poking with markers
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- choose one color at a time, and color on clay (not in our mouths!)
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- squishing Model Magic & gold paint
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- paint on hand, then squish the clay: a new way to paint
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- fine motor engagement: making tiny snakes with clay
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- gold paint sparkles
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- singing while you paint brings big smiles
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- how does paint feel?
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- painting
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- making long pictures: corssing the midline
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- room for both hands
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- watercolors are “wetter” than sticky tempera paints
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- stretching TALL to draw at the top of our board
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- letter stamps: a reliable standby
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- banging with stamps is FUN
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- fingerpainting
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- making brown by mixing red, yellow and blue
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- mat board is a great surface for diligent painters
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- rolling crayons in paint
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- making brown with red, yellow, blue
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- making a snake: rolling model magic
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- how do paints work on dark brown paper?
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- engaging muscles: using two hands to SQUEEZE
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- how much paint can a painting hold?
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- squeezing paint is fun
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- our last day
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