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.
November 8, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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WATERCOLOR PAINTING: A Snowy Forest. These girls love to draw and paint. In a style similar to Monet’s Poplars, we used a variety of watercolor techniques [salt, kleenex, masking tape, sponging] to achieve this landscape scene with birch trees.
November 2, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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A VISIT WITH CEZANNE IN MY KITCHEN. My watercolor class recently spent a session “painting with Cezanne”. Instead of reproducing one of his works, and rather than paint the Still Life we set up for our class, I chose to do my own “study”, pretending he was looking over my shoulder as I sipped my mug of Earl Grey and had a TCM marathon day. Even though I may see things differently than Cezanne saw them, his techniques and treatment of ordinary kitchen elements definitely challenged me to expand my personal style.
October 23, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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FALL IS IN THE AIR. When you don’t want to carve your pumpkin until closer to Halloween, you let your grandson use sharpies and markers to design a funny face! Radiating Leaves has become an interesting art project. First the children draw “real leaves” and then outline them with pens, keeping the lines as close as possible without touching, until the radiating lines “bump” into each other! Op-Art with vibrations!
October 17, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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FLORAL STILL LIFE. Using oil pastels, this homeschool class demonstrated their expressive use of color and shapes. The fall bouquet was a hostess gift from friends visiting from Tucson, AZ and repurposed a few days later for this Still Life study!