Color Study!
Inspired by the artist Wassily Kandinsky’s painting Squares
with Concentric Circles, Edna Louise Spear Elementary School students in
Mrs. Deanna Lilimpakis’ class worked with art teacher Mrs. Meghan
McCarthy on reviewing and drawing shapes, working in a concentric design
and exploring wax resist, a process in which any substance that
prevents or repels paint. The students used oil pastels as the wax
component since they are made of oil pigments with a wax binder before
applying watercolor paints. They also learned that the paint is repelled
off of the wax and soaks only into the white paper.