December 30, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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INTERMEZZO LADIES. “Later in the Game”. Honestly, these women are serious about their new “hobby”! Quick learners. Their progress has been “molto rapido”! Exercises of blending colors, value studies, and practice-practice is paying off.
December 30, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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INTERMEZZO LADIES. First Brushstrokes. Six courageous women eager to enter the world of watercolor. Shopping for supplies, then loading up new art bags and baskets. A “first” for everyone—taking an art class to explore a very challenging medium.
December 22, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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KINDERART CHRISTMAS. With “Joy to the World” as our theme, we drew electric guitars and sang Christmas carols while we worked. Each student chose an image to copy and then added their own design and color choices.
December 11, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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PAINTING WITH BONNARD. One of the founders of the turn-of-the-century Les Nabis movement, Pierre Bonnard used intense and close value colors. We studied his technique by personal interpretation of one of his interiors—one of his many “open window” paintings. When I discovered that quite a few of my scraps and strips from old watercolors were close to his palette, I ended up with a collage approach to my own study. Other Intermezzo ladies painstakingly mixed colors from their own palettes to mimic Bonnard’s choices. Beautiful results!
December 3, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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LEONARDO’S IL CAVALLO at Atlanta’s HIGH Museum. Two of my preschool grandsons were as impressed with the people looking at the huge statue as they are with the horse! But it was definitely more interesting than the sketchbook pages and sculptures in the exhibit!
December 2, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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SKETCHING LIKE LEONARDO. This theme has been popular in all of my home school and private school classes. Drawing is fundamental to every art project, so I want students to discover the joy of sketching and drawing as a way of life. Middle School students were able to have a sketch session in the plaza at the HIGH Museum of Art, drawing Leonardo’s horse, a two-story high statue! Younger students filled a sketchbook page with everyday objects, mimicking da Vinci’s passion for filling his pages with drawings of all sizes and all subject matter.