How to appreciate the color beauty of picture books

Picture books attract children through vision. Pictures are no longer the vassals of words, but the life of books. In the picture book activity, children unconsciously absorbed the composition, lines, painting, color application and even some artistic language of excellent picture books through contact, dialogue and appreciation with them. It subtly nourishes children's spiritual world, enriches children's artistic feelings and plays an irreplaceable substantive role in improving children's aesthetic ability. First, the perception of color is the starting point of children's aesthetic education. Children's perception of color, that is, their ability to recognize color, is extremely elementary and simple. In other words, they only have the most primitive perception and recognition of the most important colors, such as black, white, red, green, yellow and blue. It is difficult to identify the intermediate color or transition color between these main colors. Reading picture books can expand children's perception and recognition of color diversity and complexity. They can greatly improve their ability to recognize colors, connect all colors in nature with colorful scenery, and have a preliminary understanding of the connotation of colors and the emotions they express, which provides preliminary conditions for children to express self-centered scenery and emotions with more colors. Second, look at the picture book and understand the connotation. Each picture book has different connotations and emotions. In the process of reading picture books, we use multimedia, pictures, slides, animations and other forms to guide children to feel the connotation of picture books. Understanding picture books should put experience first. Teachers can improve their intuitive experience after children boldly express their experience of picture books. Combined with the reading characteristics of middle school children, I chose Yellow Umbrella, Hungry Little White Bear, Spring of the Calf, Yellow and Blue, Messy Chameleon, The End of the Rainbow, Emma the Checked Elephant and Five Ducks to draw a book to guide children to read and feel the beauty of the picture book. Thirdly, combined with the perception of key pictures, on the basis of understanding the connotation, grasp the key pictures of picture books for key appreciation and layer-by-layer analysis. The key pictures we appreciate should be rich in content, connected with children's life, bright in color, strong in scene, full of emotion and suitable for children's age characteristics. Follow the principles of gradualism and goal, and appreciate from near to far, from simple to complex. The picture book "Hungry Little White Bear" focuses on four pictures representing feelings. Judging from these four pictures, children's understanding of color is relatively in place and their expression is relatively appropriate. Seeing bright colors, they all said they would be in a good mood. When they see black or dark color, they feel heavy, and they understand that color can represent the mood of the characters. Fourth, create color in the experience. Children's understanding of color includes not only color perception ability, but also color application ability. While enriching children's art skills, we should use reading expansion activities and corner activities to cultivate children's use of color and rich imagination. Use various forms to guide children's imagination and apply it to painting: (1) Pay attention to imagination. In the reading activities of the picture book Hungry Little White Bear, children's imagination is stimulated and they are trained to draw the plot of the story. Children boldly imagine themselves in the clouds in the sky through early learning and appreciation. (2) Pay attention to the story. Inspire children to create and draw their own stories. For example, in Huang Xiao and Xiao Lan's picture book reading, after a series of color games, children are asked to tell their own color matching pictures in the form of stories. Children will find that two colors will produce new colors after mixing, and teachers will guide children to think and observe the changes of colors. Let children know the process of producing three primary colors, intermediate colors and composite colors, and let children better perceive the original changes of rich colors. Children not only remember how all kinds of beautiful colors are matched through story exchange, but also never tire of playing, and each time they have different vivid stories. (3) Pay attention to artistic conception. Guide children's emotional creation by enjoying music or creating artistic conception. Cultivate children to express their understanding of music by appreciating music and using colors, lines or objects. In the reading activities of the picture book pholiota adiposa, the picture is very beautiful. Although there is no written expression, the dubbing is beautiful and beautiful. By asking questions, combining music and your own feelings, you can fully feel the beautiful scenery of the umbrella in the rain. Teachers also respect each child's creative dribs and drabs according to the specific situation, encourage ingenious imagination and unique forms of expression, guide children to be good at discovering unusual scenes in life, consciously guide children to learn, and gradually develop the habit of creative thinking by combining content and theme. The expansion activities of the picture book "Yellow Umbrella" appreciate all kinds of beautiful umbrellas, and then combine beautiful music to guide children to fully feel the beautiful scenery of umbrellas in the rain and carry out a series of expansion activities: social activities-the use of umbrellas; Scientific activities-the umbrella of nature. The children and their parents collected all kinds of fungi and pictures as well as umbrella-shaped leaves. In the process of sharing with each other, children broaden their understanding of umbrella-shaped things in nature. Art activities-all kinds of umbrellas. Dot painting Little Umbrella. Colored mud-my little umbrella cover. (4) Pay attention to experience. The content of picture books must be appreciated and created in combination with the experience in life. The premise of children's artistic creation is to observe, walk into nature, feel and observe the world, which is especially important for children. In the reading of the picture book "Spring of the Mavericks", it is to let children perceive the changes of the four seasons and the growth of living individuals. In the process of alternating seasons throughout the year, different colors will also be formed, which is also a beautiful picture. Spring is coming. When choosing the content to describe the scene of spring, first lead children to see, listen, touch and smell nature, fully perceive the beauty of spring, and then imagine the perceived beauty, and express their feelings heartily with colored pens, which will help children form a sense of color beauty. (5) Pay attention to children's bold performance and the use of materials. Take the picture book Messy Chameleon as an example. From the cover: in the green bush, a colorful chameleon crouched on a big stone ... The child observed it, thought about it and asked: Why didn't the chameleon change its color to protect itself? Yes, what can it do? The child imagines and expresses that it may go to the hospital to see a doctor; Try again in another place and jump into the red flowers ... but it's no use trying for a long time. If the lion comes, he will find it and eat it. What should I do? If you were its friend, what would you do (think, express and listen). See how friends help (observe and listen) or fail. Who is here? What will happen next (observation, analysis)? If you were a chameleon, what would you do (imagine, express and listen)? How does the chameleon do it (observe, analyze and express)? The lion has escaped. Why? Do you like chameleons? Why? (Analysis, Aesthetics) What do friends do? Why is this? (Observation, analysis, expression, aesthetics) What interesting things will happen next to the dirty chameleon? (Endless space for thinking and imagination) Let the subject of aesthetic development be gradually solved in children's painting activities. Guide children to feel and discover, and encourage children to create their own schema according to what they have seen and heard in their own lives. Follow children's creative activities and fully develop children's aesthetic expression ability. According to the content and objectives of the activity, flexible organizational forms are adopted, such as painting "chameleon that can change color" individually and drawing collectively, which not only enhances the communication between children, but also increases the interest of the activity; It not only satisfies children's activity needs to a certain extent, but also promotes children's better performance. In addition, on the basis of group activities, we also organize some group activities and district activities, so that children can complete the process of expressing beauty and creating beauty through extensive cooperation and exchanges, and then feel the fun of creating beauty. In the activities, we understand and encourage children to use different angles and expressions to advocate individuality. Through picture books, children can find the best combination of aesthetic activities-speaking and doing, constantly enrich their aesthetic taste, improve their aesthetic ability and stimulate their creative potential.