Art History/Art Class

Today I taught our first Art History lesson.  Luke and Isabel are in the class of course as well as Mason, Kyla, Ben and Luke S.  I first showed them pictures of many different kinds of art; paintings, sculptures, dancers, music, jewelry, landscaping, furniture, clothing, buildings, logos, etc.  With each picture I asked, "Is this art?"  They caught on pretty quickly that the answer was always yes.  We then discussed the seven elements of art and they got to practice drawing each element.  They are such a good group of kids and I love seeing how excited they are about learning.  Next week we will be learning about Leonardo Da Vinci and Jackson Pollock. The 7 Elements of Art
The elements of art are the components used to create, or build, a work of art
Line – is a mark, or hatch mark, made on a surface.
Shape – An enclosed area defined by line, color, value, texture, space, or form.
Form – Encloses volume. (cube, sphere, pyramid, and cylinder)
Value – Light and dark Texture - The tactile (touch) quality of a surface or its representation, what a surface appears to feel like.
Color - (Hue) Space - The creation of visual perspective, and the illusion of depth; the distance around, between, above, below, and within an object or group of objects

Zack and Sylvia played happily together the whole time.  Speaking of Sylvia, yesterday she asked me, "Can the toaster be my pet?!"  She asked so sweetly I would have said yes but I quickly invisioned her plugging in her "pet" and feeding him with a metal spoon.

Encore for Princess Paulina

I had to put every single one of these pictures on here just to show how difficult it is to get Sylvia to smile and pretend like she is normal. (the first one is the most normal.)

Princess Paulina was called back again so Isabel and I read to another first grade class this morning. This afternoon Luke and Isabel went to Kelly's house for their first Greek Mythology class. They came home with a cyclopes they made and told me about Zeus. Luke and I then worked on his pinewood derby car.

Mud Hole

Joey gave Luke a special digging place. For the last few days he has been working very hard. Today the girls reaped the benefits of all his hard work. And as usual, Sylvia somehow ended up naked.