Posted by Cindy on March 27, 2010
We spent much of our month with Matisse completing art with scissors since Matisse’s later works were often collages or realistic and abstract art constructed from cuttings.
The artwork below was actually harder than it looks. I asked the kids to use rulers to measure the desired sized blocks of color for the background. The abstract pieces placed on top were folded, cut and opened so that each piece would be symmetrical. (See, I hide math everywhere!)
Henri Matisse
Olga’s Gallery
Warning: There are many nudes!
Paintings We Studied
I chose these paintings by Matisse because we were studying erosion at the time during nature study. Each of the paintings includes erosion of some sort. We had fun looking for and drawing erosion during our nature walks. These painting ideas and the nature walk ideas came from the Everchanging Erosion NaturExplorers unit.
Open Window
Luxembourg Gardens
La Moulade
The Bank
Lesson Ideas
KinderArt Lessons
Paper Collages
Mulit-Media Design
Posted by Cindy on March 2, 2010
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
Posted by Cindy on January 29, 2010
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, we greatly respect how long it must have taken Seurat to finish any of his works created strictly with dots!
Georges Seurat
Olga’s Gallery
Paintings We Studied
La Grande Jatte
The Circus
Cows in a Field
Alfalfa
Books We Read
Lesson Ideas
Pointillism Activity Ideas
KinderArt Pointillism
Art Exercises for Kids
Posted by Cindy on December 4, 2009
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 Pigs
Piti Teina
Lesson Ideas
Pet Still Life
Self-Portrait
Various Worksheets and a Bio
Books We’ll Read
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!
Francois Auguste-Rene Rodin
Artchive Gallery
The Thinker
Jean de Fiennes, Draped
Rose Beuret
The Hand of God
Lesson Ideas
Many Ideas for Drawing and Sculpting Hands
