This week, we played around with some art - not so much Arts Week, because we had to finish up some writing and math, but we had an art lesson every day. I used to subscribe to Homeschooling Today and had pulled out all the art lessons by Barry Stebbing. I chose 3 artists: Italian artist, Correggio, and American artists, Winslow Homer and Norman Rockwell.
We read about Correggio first and studied a painting of Christ. Then using colored pencils, Abby and Thomas copied the painting.
We also studied Winslow Homer's paintings of one-room schoolhouses and drew our own.
Thomas' favorite artist is Norman Rockwell, so he loved reading about him! Thomas and Abby practiced drawing three faces: one from memory, one from a photo, and one from a model, and had to decide which was hardest (they decided that drawing a live person is tough!).
We are not serious artists, nor serious art students, but reading about various artists and practicing art has definitely helped us look at God's world with different eyes.
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Those look great! I just taught a lesson on Norman Rockwell to our Art Club kids! I found a neat teacher's guide for an exhibit in D.C. and learned about how Steven Speilberg and George Lucas have large collections of his work and how it inspires them in their movie making. N.R.'s paintings tell stories and he would set up his scenes just like a director of a movie. He would have a photographer take pictures of the models in the action poses and then paint from that. Very cool!! Hey, I think I'll do a blog post on it! :)
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