Colorful
Yves Klein loved BLUE! He even created his own blue and used it to paint blue works of art. The children were introduced to monochrome artwork through an introduction to Yves Klein and the stories Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger and Bob’s Blue Period by Marion Deuchars. They then created monochrome paintings using a pallet […]
No Playdates for 2021-2022
Unfortunately, due to being short staffed and the current COVID crisis, we will not be holding playdates for the 2021-2022 school year. We hope things are looking up next school year and we can resume our monthly playdates. Be well!
Harvest
The artist Mary Cassatt painted portraits of children and families. On Monday we discussed who might be in a family and invited the children to make family portraits, including anyone they considered family, which could be those who live in their homes, pets, and extended family. Before taking pencil to paper they decided who they […]
Living
Monday artists read Mouse Paint by Ellen Stohl Walsh and White Rabbit’s Color Book, then got messy mixing up finger paints to create purple, orange, and green from red and blue, red and yellow, and yellow and blue. Students continued to work on self portraits. They used the mirror to see the shape of their […]