Tag: Classical Conversations

  • Cycle 3 Week 15- Georgia O’Keeffe

    Cycle 3 Week 15- Georgia O’Keeffe

    For the next three weeks, the art lessons will focus on painting technique and color. This week, we will copy a painting by the famous American artist Georgia O’Keeffe. The focus will be on mixing colors smoothly on the canvas, and creating light and dark areas for dimension and contrast. O’Keeffe completed around two hundred…

  • Cycle 3 Week 5- Washington Monument Perspective Drawing

    Cycle 3 Week 5- Washington Monument Perspective Drawing

    This was my first week back to CC and, boy, am I feeling it.  Maybe also because my husband has been gone for a week, I’m planning my daughter’s fifth birthday party, and I have four loads of laundry staring at me.  Whatever the reason, I’m a little tired and I’m going to blame that…

  • Cycle 3 Week 4- Abstract American Flag

    Cycle 3 Week 4- Abstract American Flag

    Since we are studying American artists later this year during the “Great Artists”, I wanted to incorporate some famous American abstract artists into this lesson as well.  I’ve included examples of paintings by Calder, Rothko, and Johns. Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) created a painting called “Flag”, which, simply, is of the American flag.…

  • Cycle 3 Week 2- Liberty Bell (Mirror Image)

    Cycle 3 Week 2- Liberty Bell (Mirror Image)

    My dad is a huge early American history enthusiast, so I am extra excited to study this year’s curriculum.  The next five lessons include symbols and landmarks of the United States, and we’ll start off with the Liberty Bell.  Originally named the State House bell, this iconic piece hung in the Pennsylvania State House, which…

  • Cycle 2 Week 4- Abstract Native American Salmon

    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…

  • Cycle 2 Week 2- Geometric Bear

    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…