Jan Vermeer - Artist of the Month

Art Elements emphasized this month, following Jan Vermeer's examples, are as follows:

• Pre-K, Kindergarten & 3rd Grade - Still-Life
• Skills used in PAINTING
• Value - The lightness and darkness of a color.
• Shading - observation of value in a painting or reality
• Various ways to create DEPTH in our picture (use of size, value, overlapping)
• One-Point Perspective - 4th & 5th graders

Scroll down to view Pre-K - 5th Grades various projects we worked on to review these concepts:


Pre-K - Picture Study of Vermeer's Famous Works (Painted Still Life; mixing of Primary Colors to create Secondary Colors)







Mrs. Collin's Kindergarten - Picture Study of Vermeer's Famous Works (Glue & Pastels)



Ms. B's Kindergarten - Pictures Study of Vermeer's Famous Works (Watercolors)



Still-life (Paint & Pastels) -






1st Grade - Picture Study of Vermeer's Famous Works (Paint with Metallic Paint Highlights)

2nd Grade - Observational Study of fellow classmates (Paint and paint mixing to create new colors)

3rd Grade - Picture Study of Vermeer's Famous Works (Paint and paint mixing to create new colors)


4th Grade - One-Point Perspective Drawings (Monochromatic Drawing)

5th Grade - One-Point Perspective Drawings using Value to create Depth

Projects in Progress...

Day 2 -

Kindergarten, 1st & 2nd Grade - "Value Quilt" (Crayons)

Make sure to come and see the "Value Quilt" hanging in the school hallway!

Toothpicks & Marshmallow Sculptures