The Thinker and Other Rodin Fun
Posted by Cindy on October 30, 2009
We’ve had a fun month studying Rodin (despite my preference for paintings over sculpture.) I’ve been rather slow posting our projects, so here are two weeks worth of projects.
After studying The Hand of God and other hand sculptures, we completed 2-dimensional abstract hand drawings. The kids simply traced their hands and used at least two different mediums to create an abstract design. I love these!
You can see the Ivory soap sculpting we did as one of the projects during our Presidents unit in this post. I didn’t get a close-up of the sculptures because they weren’t great, but you can see the small squares of Ivory soap in the two overall project pictures. They didn’t turn out as quite the masterpieces that I’d hoped, but it was fun anyway!
To end the study, we pulled out some clay and tried a little sculpting.
“Flowers in a Basket”
“The Creek”
Here are the resources that have been in the sidebar this month. I hope they’re helpful to you!
The Thinker
Jean de Fiennes, Draped
Rose Beuret
The Hand of God
Lesson Ideas
Many Ideas for Drawing and Sculpting Hands
[...] I’d like to share a recent picture study resource review I wrote at The Curriculum Choice about Dover Art Cards as well as our latest artist study activities in The Thinker and Other Rodin Fun. [...]
Wonderful artist study!
I love your artist study. Great works of art by your little ones.
Looks like you have a few talented artists in your midst!!!
Jeanette,
What a sweet comment! Thank you for the encouragement and I’m so excited something I’ve posted has inspired you!!
Many blessings,
Cindy
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I have been in a “rut” for the past few weeks…until God directed me to your blog. You have fueled the fire in me to start back with more unit studies and projects. (I was getting WAY too serious with the school work over here!)
You have been such a blessing for our homeschool-thanks!