K-1 Pencils & Paints

Art Central's K-1 Pencils & Paints course teaches children in grades kindergarten and 1st grade the art process of abstraction-to-production. 'In cognition, abstraction is a higher order type of thinking in which common features are identified (abstracted). This cognitive process of isolating common characteristics between different things is essential for many high level forms of thinking, such as learning from experience, inference, and forming judgments.' Art Central's K-2 Pencils & Paints course further develops your child's ability to mentally abstract shapes, sizes, proportions, compositions, colors, lightness, darkness, depths, textures, materials, and other features from a photograph or a still-life subject to create their own pencil sketches, mix their own colors, and then paint canvases.