Living Artists: Kindah Khalidy

KINDAH KHALIDY


Materials: 8X13 Sketch paper, dice, markers, pens, crayons, paint brushes, colored pencils, watercolors, acrylic paint, pastels- any art tool on hand that can draw :)

To continue our living artists unit, we created abstract art inspired by Kindah Khalidy

I lucked out and found a fun pre-recorded class that I purchased for us to follow along from Art Camp Studio


I found a free activity similar to Art Camp Studios, but if you prefer to be hands-off and let someone else guide the activity, hers is perfect. Sometimes we need a break from the craft and the littles want to be independent so her shop offers that with her lessons. 


Otherwise, if you put on some music, provide all the art supplies and grab a die it's a great rainy day...or out on the deck sunshiny day...activity. 





Our sun room acts as a partial art studio where the kids can turn on their tunes and create. It has plenty of natural light and the table we've used to make our art has splatters of paint, pen marks allowing the kids to express themselves without worry of a spill or mess.


If you don't have a separate room, that's okay. A simple clipboard with their paper attached works wonderfully, too. Similar to our art table, if the clipboard gets messy it ends up turning into its own work of art and there's no stress over going off the paper. 


Before the video, we did watch some videos of Kindah in her art space creating. Our favorite one was of her using perler beads. It was a lesson in that everything around us can be used in art and not always for the purpose it was intended. Her French Bulldog is fun to look at, too ;)





I'll be honest - my kids were not impressed. Haha! They called the work "eyesores" and a bunch of scribbles. Even after dissecting one of Kindah's pieces and showing how one abstract object within the painting can warp to be many things, like a bunny or maybe a dragon, they did not think that was cool, and they stared blankly back at me.

Not all art projects will appeal to every kid, but I asked them to have an open mind and hoped they'd come around.

And they did. The kids created the prettiest designs from their perspectives, and gladly hung them up. I think, in the lesson, they learned that art can sometimes be personal and Kindah had her reasons for choosing what and how to lay out her art just as they did.


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