Thursday, May 24, 2012
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
Paintings We’re Studying
Innocent Allies
Doubtful Handshake
Drifters
Round-up on the Musselshell
Lesson Ideas
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
Paintings We Studied
La Grande Jatte
The Circus
Cows in a Field
Alfalfa
Books We Read
Lesson Ideas
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!
Cattle Drinking
Landscape
Black Pigs
Piti Teina
Lesson Ideas
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!
The Thinker
Jean de Fiennes, Draped
Rose Beuret
The Hand of God
Lesson Ideas
Posted by Cindy on September 29, 2009
We have LOVED our time spent with Rousseau!
Henri Rousseau Artist Study Resources
Landscape with Cattle
View of Bridge Sevres
The Football Players
Monkeys in a Jungle
Lesson Ideas
Princeton Online – Several Ideas
Lesson Plan Page – Stained Glass
Books We Read
Don’t forget to sign up for the giveaway that takes place bright and early Thursday, October 1st!
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