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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso




Monday, August 9, 2010

What did we do?


Just wanted to post a little summary of what we accomplished our last two days of Drawing and Design and World Tour.

In drawing and design we learned about perspective. We talked about how things appear to look smaller, more faded, and softer lines and colors in the distance. On day two they worked on a one point perspective drawing that had to include some kind of road, path or river that went to a vanishing point, one cube like structure, and three objects each a little further in the distance. On day three we learned the proportions of the face. Eyes are in the middle-- not the top half. That is probably the most common mistake in drawing faces. The head is about five eyes wide. The edges of the nose line up with the inside corners of the eyes. The corners of the mouth line up with the middle of the pupils. The kids did a wonderful job on their self portraits. They are pretty young to be learning figure drawing, but there have actually been studies done that show that if you don't understand the body proportions by about fourth grade, that it becomes very difficult to change those incorrect images in your mind. That's why so many adults are "stick figure artists."

In World Tour, we finished up our relief carvings in Greece and then moved on to Tibet for some sand painting. We learned that in some cultures art is created as part of religious ceremonies and then swept away when it is done. On day three we were in France learning Impressionism from some of the masters. The kids looked at pictures of nature and then created Impressionist artwork using oil pastels and pointillism using tempera paint and a Q-tip. Kids are so used to using line to make their pictures. This was a good activity to set the lines aside and focus more on the colors.

Thanks again to all of the kids who participated and your hard work! Keep asking the magic question, "What if?" and exercise that creativity!!!

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