Creativity and Wonder: Every teacher can foster creativity, regardless of artistic experience: November 2021

A winged heart is a famous ancient symbol that combines a heart shape with bird wings to represent freedom, love, and a happy spirit. Here are 3 interesting facts about this magical symbol made just for kids:

🕊️ 1. It Means "Love That Gives You Wings"

When you put wings on a heart, it is a visual way of saying that love makes a person feel light, happy, and free. People use it to show a "free spirit" or to express a love so strong that it feels like it can fly right up into the sky! [1, 2, 3]

🌍 2. It is an Ancient Emblem Used by Sufis

The winged heart is the official symbol for a spiritual group called the Sufis. In their teachings, the heart represents the link between the body and the soul. The wings mean that the heart is reaching upward toward heaven or trying to improve itself to be more kind and peaceful. [1]

🎨 3. It is One of the Most Popular Doodles in the World

Because it is so easy and fun to draw, the winged heart is a superstar in arts and crafts! Kids and artists all over the globe love to draw it in graffiti style, mold it out of clay, or fold it out of paper using origami. You can customize the wings to look like soft bird feathers, fluffy clouds, or even magical dragon wings

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Composition II

Josey’s Art School

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Studying Art with the Masters

Robin Norgren, M.A.

Contemporary Art: Piet Mondrian

Discussion

-In Piet Mondrian groundbreaking paintings of the 1920s, Mondrian strictly limited his color palette to black, white, and the three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue.

-Mondrian attempted to represent the world through vertical and horizontal lines which to him represented the two opposing forces: the positive and the negative, the dynamic and the static, the masculine and the feminine.

-Mondrian was a founding member of De Stijl, an influential Dutch art movement that advocated pure abstraction to express a utopian ideal of universal harmony.

Source: http://fineartists.blogspot.com/2012/05/piet-mondrian-abstraction-and-his-trees.html

Materials needed

Pencil (to write the child’s name on the back of the work)

Black pen (optional)

8.5x11 piece of copy paper. If you plan on painting the drawing it would be best to use a heavier grade paper.

This is a lesson that can be adapted in many ways depending on the age and skill level of your classroom.

Optional: markers/crayons/colored pencils/watercolors- I am showing two examples: tempura paint with construction paper and ALL construction paper

Blue/red/yellow construction paper cut into rectangles

Blue/red/yellow tempura paint

Sponges cut into squares

Black construction paper cut into thin strips

Glue

scissors

Aprons

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30-40 minutes

Prep work:

Gather the materials

Create a sample

Pre-cut construction paper rectangles and strips

Draw rectangles on white paper as a template for where to place the construction paper rectangles or sponge paint.

This should take no more than about 20 -30 minutes

Instructions

1. Take your piece of paper that you are using as the base for the project and write the child’s name on the back of the paper or let them write their names on their own.

2. I am going to start with the painting option: students use the paint and the sponges to stamp inside the rectangles on the page.