Grade 2 Artists learned about Expressionist painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985). They discovered in his paintings how he used memories of childhood in Russia in combination with his fantastic dreams and imaginary pictures of animals, musical instruments, ceremonies, and circus characters to create excitingly creative and colorful artwork. They made their own "Dreams and Memories" pictures by starting with a self portrait, then spinning the page once to draw where they live on the next edge of the paper. They continued the process, draw something, spin the paper, 5 more times adding pictures of things that are meaningful to them.
We began the work drawing in sharpie, then colored with Prismacolor art stix, dipped into liquid watercolor, and finally touched it up with some biggie cakes tempera.
The idea for this lesson came from here: https://artlessonsforkids.me/2009/04/21/chagall-inspired-dreams-in-grade-2/