Thursday Aug. 30 Art

K-Art Lesson 6- Read and discussed art and artists: Holbein, Goya, and Beechy from Come Look with me: Enjoying Art with children. Cindy I sent home my copie so you could go over it with Nadia- just for fun. They all enjoyed looking for the three cats on page 10. All the paintings have some type of toy too. We have done this type of compare and contrast in the past. They ask great questions and enjoy looking at the art work. All the units end with this. Fun, fun, fun.
Lesson 5-We learned about french artist Henri Matisse and made a painting using a lot of colors and different kinds of lines inspired by Purple Robe and Anemones. Cindy you can find this print in the art gallery of the lesson. We also made a collage inspired by Matisse- like he did in his later years when he could no longer paint.

Pronunciations and art galleries are found in the lessons. We have completed unit 1.

2ed grade Art lesson 6- We had a great discussion about Leonardo da Vinci's life of work. It went beyond the lesson. Holden told me the light in the picture was probably coming from a window and what direction. Isaac remembered that he drew pictures of the inside of people. (for science because that was the only way they had of documentation) . Isaac also ask how do we know when a sketch is finished. I told him that art historians have had many debates over this. I think a picture is done when the artist feels it is complete. Yea! way to go guys. When they settled down they could even remember information and pictures from last years lesson. This lesson focused on Leonardo's sketches. We made quick sketches of a animal in motion. Maybe we can get Rachelle to video tape a session.

Lesson 7-Read about art and artists: Marc, Ganku, and Wyeth in How Artists See Animals.
I think the boys could read this book (pages 4-11). They were suppose to make a picture of a realistic animal- which they did- and a picture of an animal with make believe colors -which they were not interested in doing. oh well.

I will be giving the boys the end of the unit test first thing next Thursday. We are done with unit 1.

They have also compeleted Unit 2 lessons 2 and 3, thats what is on my wall. We will start with Unit 2 lesson 1 and 3 next week. I will also be introducing them to tertiary colors in this unit. I think they are ready. They picked out the primary and secondary colors in the art book page 7.

see ya, Suzy