Today, we finished up our seasonal art study using Nature's Paintbox.

For the winter season our focus was on using the medium pen and ink.  I also took note of the fact that the artist used the technique cross hatching.  You can see it in the girl's coat in this illustration from the book.

I recognized it from another book that we are familiar with, Wee Gills by Munro Leaf, which has an abundance of the cross hatching technique used.  Wee Gillis also appears to be done in Pen and Ink.  So we also flipped through it to observe the medium and technique a bit more.

Another observation from Nature's Paintbox was that one of the illustrations was done from a "birds eye view", so we also discussed that.

While completing our renderings, we pulled out our Vivaldi CD and finished up the final suite, Winter,  from The Four Seasons.  While drawing and listening we talked about what wintery visions the music brought to our minds:  a blizzard, snow floating down, squirrels scampering about, the wind whistling through the snow, etc.

Here are our ink drawings:

Links for the other seasons:

Nature's Paintbox - Spring

Nature's Paintbox - Summer

Nature's Painbox - Autumn