Kandinsky circles - spring style

We are fans of Mr Kandinsky circles.

This year, we wanted to "Spring" it up a bit.

First we painted a bunch of papers with sponges, making lovely texture marks.

I cut the papers into 3", 4" and 5" squares.

The kidlets needed to make sets of circles. An odd number always looks good. But more importantly, we were learning about colour theory.

One of the flowers had to have a red circle, a blue circle, and a purple circle. A red, yellow and orange circle. And a yellow, blue and green circle. The kids chose which was small, medium and large - because they were the artists.

They cut out the circles - either drawing circles or "curvy corners" on the back, or cutting free hand.

The circles looked gorgeous when they were glued together.

Since we were making flowers, we needed a background. We "smooshed" yellow and green paint spatters together with a sponge. More colour mixing and texture creating.

The kids decided how to arrange their flowers,

and painted stems - straight or wavy, and whatever colour(s) they wished - and leaves, if the wished.

And they look amazing.