Brush Strokes and Flowers
We expanded our color/flower/brush stroke study by painting on large paper at the easels. It is very interesting to watch the different movements and strokes you make when your body is in a different position. Do you know when you stand your strokes get bigger? We were so excited to see all the beautiful grips everyone had on their paint brushes. You know what else - it is a lot of work to stand and paint. There were so many times friends wanted to be done simply because they were working their whole body, but we pushed on and painted many beautiful flower still lifes!
Working on sharing supplies!
Checking to make sure he got all the details.
We are really focusing on really seeing things, zooming in and noticing. Today each student was given a close up photo of the flower that had picked last week. They were asked to study their photo to list all the colors they could see (this was very challenging as many friends wanted to paint with all the colors of the rainbow.) We really focused in on what we could actually see, not just what we thought any flower could be! There were so many paintings in which the artist was able to identify each part of the flower. Art and Science UNITE!
Hmmm. I see purple in my flower. I need purple paint!
Stem - yep!
Brown and Yellow - yep!
Leaf!!!
Can I draw the inside?
You can draw whatever you see.
I see the purple inside, I'll draw that.
I see a little bit of brown in the middle.
This is the line down from the flower.
Oh, what is the line down called?
Ummm, THE STEM!
After listing our colors we picked out what we needed and gathered our supplies. They it was time to work. Tongues out, eye with laser focus we looked at each part of the flower and drew what we saw!
I made a pink, dancing, flower guy. His stem is the legs and the petals is hair. He has a bow tie on top.
Looks like I'm an artist.
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