JIM DINE INSPIRED ART

Many classes learned about St. Valentine and his remarkable gift of healing people by making medicines from plants, honey, beeswax, and milk.  They looked at images of him and noticed he is always depicted in a garden or holding a plant.  Students explored hundreds of picture of heart paintings made by artist, Jim Dine, then set out to create their own.  They used wax resist technique where they added color with crayon and painted in the positive and negative space of their designs. with watercolor.  Some used high contrast while others chose to paint the two spaces in similar color and pattern.  Jim Dine would be proud of these whimsical images!  Our ART SMART words were Positive and Negative Space, Contrast, Symmetry and Wax Resist.