We’ve been so immersed in our 1900’s history studies, that Charles Russell took a bit of a back seat this month.  We did find the time to practice a little horse drawing, though.  Enjoy the resources below!
Charles Russell

About Charles Russell
Paintings We’re Studying

Innocent Allies

Doubtful Handshake

Drifters

Round-up on the Musselshell
Lesson Ideas
How to Draw a Horse
Drawing Horses

Seurat is such a fun artist to study!  His use of pointillism was the biggest topic during the month, which made for some fun art projects.  The painting above was an attempt at recreating an “Alfalfa” style painting (see below) with a mixture of strokes and styles.  After using many different tools to create pointillism, [...]

Last week we completed lots of activities to learn about and better understand light and color.  The color part of the unit was a super time to integrate art/artist study into the theme.  Here’s a glimpse into the unit activities.

This week we’re focusing on sound.  A post of those activities will follow soon, along with [...]

Gauguin was an interesting character!  I can’t claim that he’s my favorite artist, but we still enjoyed our time spent with him this month.
Self-Portraits

Below are the resources that have been in the sidebar.  We won’t be doing artist or composer study in December.  I’ll have resources in the sidebar again in January!
Paul Gauguin

Olga’s Gallery

Cattle Drinking

Landscape

Black [...]

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 [...]