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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We have LOVED our time spent with Rousseau, but now it’s time to move on to French sculptor, Auguste Rodin. Henri Rousseau Olga’s Gallery Landscape with Cattle View of Bridge Sevres The Football Players Monkeys in a Jungle Lesson Ideas Princeton Online – Several Ideas KinderArt – Fantasy Jungle Lesson Plan Page – Stained Glass [...]

I am loving Henri Rousseau’s style.  It’s somewhat of a folk style with lots of bright colors.  Combine that with whimsical scenes and it makes me smile.  So many of the artists we’ve studied have been too serious for me, but the lighter side of Rousseau has revived my artist’s eye! Rousseau spent many days [...]