Ohio Part 2- {Columbus Museum of Art}

Dale Chihuly

Mary Cassatt 

Rockwell 

Monet 

Renior

My favorite artist. It was a dream of mine to see one of his paintings in person and the Columbus Museum of Art had three of his! 

Natalie's Drawings

Natalie {age 11} loves to watch Jan Brett drawing videos. Here are a few drawings that she completed recently. 

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change." James 1:17

Artist Study {Georgia O'Keefe} Part 2

Continuing with our study of Georgia O'Keefe, we read another book about her life and did another art project. 

I really love this series of art books. 

We did another flower art project, this time, using our watercolor paints. 

Instead of drawing our flowers and then painting them in, the kids started out by dropping watercolor spots onto their watercolor paper. They did as many spots in as many colors as they wanted. 

After getting as many spots on their paper as they wanted, they painted some stems if they desired them. 

Once their paint dried, they drew their flowers with a black sharpie around their circles. We thought the end result turned out fun and pretty. 

Natalie's 

Annie's 

Ally's 

Camden's 

We had some copywork that we did using Georgia O"Keefe quotes. 

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt." ~ Leonardo da Vinci 

Artist Study {Georgia O' Keeffe}

Our first artist study for the 2013/14 school year is Georgia O'Keeffe.

We read through this children's book by Jeanette Winter. This is a great summary of Georgia's life and paintings. 

One of the things our book mentioned was how when Georgia painted she always painted BIG! She might be painting a small flower but she made sure that one flower took up her entire canvas when she painted it. She wanted others to notice flowers as she did. She lived to be almost 100 and painted right up to the end of her life. Even after she moved to New Mexico she continued painting flowers. She would paint the desert and then add flowers into her paintings of the desert. That is how much she loved flowers. 

Our art project after reading our story was of course to paint flowers. BIG flowers. 

The kids started out by drawing flowers on papers to help them figure out what flower design they wanted to paint. 

Once they figured out what flowers they wanted to draw, they drew them on large pieces of poster board. My only request was that they draw BIG! Their flowers had to be big enough so that the pedals reached the edge of the paper or even fell off of the paper. 

Then came tracing over their flowers with a sharpie to outline them. 

Then came the really fun part....PAINT!

Camden's 

Annie's 

I think their flowers would make Georgia happy. 

"I decided that if you could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. " ~ Georgia O'Keeffe