2nd Grade Project: Piet Mondrian - Mondrian's Trees

In this project, we continued our exploration of the work of Piet Mondrian.  We focused on his beautiful trees.  We then took the lines of his trees and applied them to the strict color divisions of this Neoplasticism.
The results are these beautifully framed organic silhouettes pierced by color.

As you can see we began with a black tempera paint, this tempera paint as used to outline the trees we had drawn with our pencils.  The students were asked to take the limbs all the way to the edge of the paper to create walled off sections for each color.

The next step was to add the color.  Students chose the shapes of their trees and the colors that shone through the limbs.