Tag: CC art
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Cycle 2 Week 16- Monet
This week we continue to study Impressionism. When we think of Impressionism we think of Claude Monet. And when we think of Claude Monet we think of water lilies, landscapes, and dabbled paint. This is exactly what we want our students to think of as well. Hopefully by the time this project is done, they…
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Cycle 2 Week 14- Gainsborough’s Fanciful Landscapes
Though Thomas Gainsborough’s landscapes might appear simply realistic to us, they have a dream-like, dramatic quality to them. It is said that he even created them at home using pebbles, twigs, and even broccoli to create mini dioramas. The images were very much from inside his own head. For this project, the students will create…
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Cycle 2 Week 14- Botanical Drawings
I love this project. It combines drawing with science and math. It teaches students to carefully study what they see. It allows us to emphasize size and proportion in drawing. Kids will always love to doodle and draw imaginative ideas, and teaching traditional drawing techniques in no way inhibits this. In fact, teaching realistic drawing will…
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Cycle 2 Week 13- Rembrandt’s Portraits
Oh, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Portrait drawing can be the most nerve-wracking art assignment. The features always look a bit wonky, it never looks like the person you are trying to draw, and it can be embarrassing to have to show it off to other kids in class. Though portrait drawing is…
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Cycle 2 Week 6- Mona Lisa Grid Drawing
I had the chance to visit the Louvre and see the Mona Lisa in person many years ago. What I thought would be a huge and impressive painting was actually a small and somewhat dull portrait. What’s all the fuss with the Mona Lisa? There have been many theories about the woman’s expression, about what…
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Cycle 2 Week 5- Cities in Perspective
Cityscapes are a wonderful way to use perspective drawing techniques. Luckily, the geography for this week is European Cities, a perfect jumping off point for drawing buildings in perspective. The drawings this week are inspired by vintage travel posters. They always have a dynamic sense of depth due to…. you guessed it, perspective! These are the posters…
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Cycle 2 Week 4- Abstract Native American Salmon
For week four, the lesson combines Native American art (timeline card “Early Native Americans”) and abstract art. First, let’s define abstract. It is a category of art that represents imagery in a simplistic or distorted manner. Under this category is non-objective art, which takes out the recognizable image completely, and we are left with just…
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Cycle 2 Week 3- Book of Kells
For week three students will be doing an upside-down drawing. The concept is about training our brains to see the image solely as a group of lines and shapes. It also relates back to OiLs and the ability to describe and duplicate lines. It is so, so, SO important to teach students to look at the object in front…
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Cycle 2 Week 2- Geometric Bear
Fine Art for week two is Mirror Images. The exercises this week are great for training students to pay attention to shapes and angles, while also practicing the skill of manipulating images in their head. They will need to study the shapes and be able to flip them around in their mind’s eye before they…
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Cycle 2 Week 1- Rainforest Drawings
The first week of CC is almost here. Woo hoo! (Or maybe, “Aagghhhh!”) Here is a drawing lesson that incorporates some science from week one (plants and animals in God’s creation) along with the OiLs drawing techniques. Below you will find three separate lessons (one for each age group) but all with the same theme.…