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Homeschooling Kiwi Style
9-Oct-2008
Picture of the Week: Monsieur Perrot's Dance Class

Monsieur Perrot's Dance Class
Edgar Degas, ca. 1875.
Oil on Canvas.
I chose this picture because it's in our Colour Your Own Impressionist Paintings book.
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9-Oct-2008
Artist for October: Edgar Degas
Well, after a break from artist study for the past month, I thought we had better get into it again!
This month's artist is Edgar Degas. This brings to mind pictures of ballerinas....

Edgar Degas
1834-1917
Click here to read his biography. He did paint more than ballerinas, I hope to share some of his other paintings with you this month too.
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26-Aug-2008
Picture of the Week: Chestnut Trees at Louveciennes
This week's picture is the last for our Pissarro study. I have chosen this picture because it is featured in our new colouring book (see below). This is "Picture Study the Easy Way!"
Camille Pissarro. Chestnut Trees at Louviciennes, ca. 1872. Oil on Canvas.

This is one of Pissarro's "non-pointillism" paintings. If there is such a word!
This morning this book arrived:

It has several colouring pages for all the Impressionists we are planning to study this year, and includes some of Renoir's paintings that were missing from Colour your Own Renoir Paintings. No doubt, some of these will be turned into paper dolls at some stage!
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23-Aug-2008
Picture Study from the Past...
I think the girls are getting a bit sick of me asking them to do a drawing for Sketch Tuesday and Picture Study every week! I'm still waiting for their pictures of Renoir's Lady at the Piano, but I thought I'd post the pictures & narrations they did for it 4 years ago. Hopefully it's an encouragement to some of you that even the little ones can have a go!

Here is Bethany's Picture & Narration, at age 5 1/2:


Emily at age 4 found it easier to copy Beth's picture than the original!

It is so lovely to look back at these pictures years later. I keep them in a large clear file which has it's own plastic box so it sits neatly on the shelf. I'd still love the girls to try this one again!
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19-Aug-2008
Picture of the Week: The Shepherdess
14-Aug-2008
Picture of the Week: Washerwomen, Eragny-sur-Epte
7-Aug-2008
Picture of the Week: Apple Picking at Eragny-sur-Epte
Our Pissarro picture for this week is:
Apple Picking at Eragny-sur-Epte

I chose this picture to start with as we have a nice large calendar picture of it. For a while we weren"t sure what was in the little basket on the bottom right of the picture...until we realized it was a baby in a "Moses basket." I would love to find out more about this painting. I am thinking of having the girls do a written or oral narration of the picture, we'll see what we can come up with.
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6-Aug-2008
Artist for August: Camille Pissarro
29-Jul-2008
Renoir Still Life Study
Last week's Renoir picture of the week was the still life, Fruits of the Midi:

Instead of having the girls copy this particular still life, I had them arrange their own and draw them in oil pastels. Here they are:


Ainsley

Emily

Bethany
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28-Jul-2008
Picture of the Week: Lady at the Piano
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