Art Appreciation

Today's featured artist at homeschool co op was Henri Matisse. We read a book and watched a movie about him, and saw samples of his work and works inspired by his style. Then one of the moms took the kids through a guided project where they created an ocean picture in Matisse-like fashion.




Brianna took things 3 dimensional, by crinkling her strands of seaweed. I cut the yellow and pink fish at the same time, then cut them into strips and "traded" pieces to make 2 striped fish. The brown at the top of her page is a fishing boat.



The kids don't look thrilled because these pictures were taken after we got home from co op, and the kids just wanted to eat lunch.

Sam's work was rather cubist. I like the motion in his green seaweed.

Eli's work is called Ocean Moonlight. The yellow in the upper right corner is the moon, and there are a mother and baby whale--can you find them?

Today was fun, and I'm looking forward to next month's art day. In fact, I think we may add some sort of art appreciation curriculum for next school year.