Art

At the request of my friend Laurie, who wanted to see some art using oil pastels, here are two projects we did in my drawing class at co-op this year. The first one was just completed last week. It's a copy of Monet's "The Cliff at Fecamp". In class we learned about impressionism, and then began work on reproducing this picture, which was originally done in oil paint. Oil pastels are a great substitue for oil paint - they are like oil paint on a stick! Here is one done by a 14 year old student:

Here is mine:

And here is one done by a 10 year old student (my daughter!):

Earlier in the year we did a "scratch off" project when we were learning about complimentary colors. We colored a taped off square with one color of crayon, and then colored over it with its complimentary color of oil pastel. Then we used a toothpick to scratch off some of the oil pastel, revealing the crayon underneath. All 3 of these pictures were done by my daughter, and they are different bugs. I tried and tried to get them to come out more clear, but for some reason they want to be blurry today.

We are using a wonderful art curriculum from Masterpiece Art Instruction called "The Phonics of Drawing." It has been so fun (and different for me) to do some bona fide art this year!