Little House Drawings

This week we read Tomasso and the Missing Line by Matteo Pericoli. The book is about a little boy that carries a drawing he created in his pocket and one day he discovers the horizon line is missing. Through this story he takes a journey and discovers many different types of lines that make up drawings and in the end he finds his missing horizon line.
After the story we looked at work from Vincent Van Gogh to help students see how artists illustrate things in the foreground smaller and things in the background larger. We talked about horizon line, foreground, middle and background. Students used their pencils to create a drawing demonstrating these things.
The drawings are great representation of what they learned today. It is fun to see their interest and enthusiasm when their drawings take shape!

The upper level experimented with one point perspective drawing. This was new to many students but they were all eager to learn and try. They did amazing! I can tell they are excited to keep going with it next week!


Have a great weekend!
ps Look at the yellow frame in the window of the office. The school self portraits are done and they are adorable!

First Day of Art!

First day of art, Hooray!!!! Today we began class by reading a book called The Clever Stick by John Lechner. The story is about a little stick that doesn't think he has a way to communicate. He soon discovers he has a voice through his illustrations and is able to share what he wants to say to his friends. This is a great lesson about how illustrations are a form of communicating. We shouldn't underestimate what the artist is trying to tell us.

After the story and a look at some of Picasso's wonderful line drawings students then took out their pencils and began to work on sketching different types of lines (zig-zags, loops, curves, dashes) and circles. Next, students began to draw their self portrait paying close attention to the shapes and lines on their face by feeling them first. The end result was brilliant! Their faces were shining on the paper and in person! Each student also did a miniature self portrait to put together in a frame with the entire school. The end result will be up some time next week!