2nd Grade Kandinsky Concentric Circles

Second graders have been studying Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter who is well known for his abstract pictures of colorful shapes. We explored his Squares with Concentric Circles (below) and talked about how this painting made us feel, what we appreciated about the artwork, and what we wondered Kandinsky was thinking while painting this.

Next, we created our own version. Students started with a square piece of paper and drew four boxes. Inside those boxes they drew three to five rings. Then they mixed colors by painting them on their paper and overlapped colors to find new and interesting colors. After, we discussed how painting this was relaxing and also fun to see how colors mixed together. Here are some results below!