Paul Klee: Abstract Portrait inspired by the painting "Senecio"

• Paul Klee was the inspiration for three of the projects in pre-K this year. His investigations into the fundamental qualities of art (shape, color, pattern, etc.) make him an excellent topic of study for little artists.
• To create these portraits students had to use a " straight-edge", a tool to help them to draw straight lines with precision. We used a ruler. They created a network of intersecting lines that formed irregular shapes across the face, neck and shoulders. 
• When coloring in the resulting shapes students had to be careful not to color adjacent shapes with the same colors. This effort lead us to discuss "map-coloring" which is actually a small branch of mathematics famous for the "4-color theorem", the first theorem ever proven by a computer.