Today we had our April "Little Hands" Art meeting... It was so much fun... Michelle had a wonderful lesson... She taught the kidlets about cave art and early man and their use of their environment to express themselves and detail their lives in story by the use of pictures, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, and engraved boulders. She also discussed the use of color and different mediums available to early man, like feathers, charcoal, berry ink etc...
She placed 4 tables end to end in a square to resemble a "cave" and placed brown paper on them for the kids to "tell their story" in pictures using brown, burgundy, and black crayons... It was great.. the kidlets had a great time and I think it will be something we do again soon...
Friday, January 11, 2008 - January's Little Hands Art group...
Today we had a lesson on Claude Monet... It was very enjoyable and informative...
Mrs. Linda did the lesson and she had several books with examples of his art work and comparisons of his work to others... Like the comparison with Renoir you can see here. It is of the La Grenouillere, or "Frog Pond"....
The kids got to do their own versions of his work.. Using black construction paper, brown and green crayons and white tempura paint, the kidlets created "Winter landscapes" by drawing with the crayons, trees mountains, and such and topping them with new fallen snow with the paint... It turned our really well...
Friday, November 2, 2007 - November Little Hands Art Group : Self Portraits
Our Little Hands group topic today was Self - Portraits...
Miss Holly discussed the different artists, their self-portraits and the differnet mediums used...
Then each child got to make their own "self" using whatever medium they had chosen... DD decided to use watercolors and DD decided to make himself out of clay... (the end results were great, even though I secretly thought that DS sculpture looked like "Mr. Bill"... *LOL)
Friday, October 5, 2007 - October Little Hands Art group : Hokusai
This month was my turn to lead the class... I chose to use the works of the Japenese artist Hokusai who was famous for his works with etching and the "Views of Mt. Fuji" prints...
We started the class by looking at a map of Japan and discussing a few things that the country is known for.. Then we practiced saying "hello" and "goodbye" in Japenese... then we got to the "FUN" part the actual etching...
First we used clean styrofoam trays and etched our drawing (of each kidlets choosing) into the tray using "chopsticks"... (staying with the "Japenese" feel)... After etching our pictures, we painted the outlines with paint....
Then we placed a piece of cardstock over the top and used a small roller to transfer our image onto the paper... I think they turned out quite well... and my DC were very pleased to show them to daddy when he came home this evening...
Friday, September 14, 2007 - Little Hands Art Group for September : God, The Great Artist
We had our September meeting for our art group today... We read "The World God Made" and discussed how he is the "Great Artist ", having made the whole universe and all the beauty in it... Then we looked at the artist, Richard Long and one of his works using mud handprints.
... Then we went and made our own "handprint artwork" on T-shirts... The kids had a great time and really enjoyed making the T-shirts...Here is there finished masterpieces...
Hi!! I'm Lisa... Homeschooling mom to 2 wonderful kidlets and this is a journal to share our family life and learning adventures with you...Have a great day and thanks for sharing it with us!!!
