We are so blessed --- a local college has created a special art program just for our homeschool group. It is wonderful. I am the one the coordinates the classes - so when our family is studying a certain time period - I will sometimes ask for the art projects to tie into our history studies. We are currently studying ancient times. Our wonderful art teacher did a drawing class with an animal focus and a prehistoric art focus.
The art was created on brown boards that gave the resemblance of a cave wall. They first worked on a dog on a smaller piece --- to work on proportions.
This is my youngest, JJ's. The horizontal lines - were added to work on proportion.
This is JJ's final picture - he picked out another picture of a dog and re-created it on his larger board. He added some color. It turned our very cute. We purchased a frame and it is now hanging in our living room.
Here you can see (on the left) the picture that my middle son was using as inspiration. In the middle is his drawing - he isn't finished yet but ran out of time in class. On the left is JJ's picture. His is completed. They really turned out neat. It was a great concept. My middle son loves to draw. My husband was excited about this class (he loves drawing too!) that he took off work and came to visit the class. (He even joined in and drew an elephant. It is really a great drawing!)
4 comments:
How cool is that?! WIsh we had something like that here.
I love the art projects. I wish we had something like that where I live too. But we are too far away from anything big to have a fun class. I like the pottery projects for the grandparents too!
Yes we are very fortunate to have several colleges right in the area. This one college works with homeschoolers the best but we have also had one art class on Picasso that was very good at one of the other universities.
This one college is even trying to do more for homeschoolers as kind of an outreach - have other things like music. I am thrilled they are so willing to work with us. We have been doing the art classes for quite awhile now - about 10 years! It is nice because they are tailored to really work with a homeschooling family. They are for grades K-12th - so we can attend as a family and not have to run out several times on different days just to have art for all the different aged kids. She will explain the project and art is just something that each child will just work at their own level. It has always worked very well. I have found that it can be hard to get educators to listen and try this type of approach as they have been so taught to segment children by a specific age into grades and teach only to that one grade. It is hard for some of them to step out of that box. This specific educator and this college has always been very open and willing to be out of the box! We love that!
Where is the elephant?
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