2nd Grade Number Paintings

Jasper Johns, Charles Demuth, and Robert Indiana are just a few well known artists that have created number paintings in their careers. Our 2nd graders learned about those three artists and observed their number paintings. From there, we choose a number 0-9 that was meaningful to us (ie: birthday, age, siblings, favorite, etc). The students drew out their number and created designs around it. We also discussed how warm colors advance and cool colors recede. From there the students used many different colors of tempera paint to carry out their design. Once the paintings were complete, we touched up our edges and redrew our designs with permanent marker.

Here is artwork from the entire 2nd grade!  7 was definitely the most popular number!

Here is a closer view at ten of the paintings: