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January 1, 2011
by Bonnie Porter
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 ART & MUSIC DAY.  KinderArt students brought their instruments to our music in the studio session.  After studying the shapes and sizes, we concentrated on doing a contour line drawing of a guitar, paying attention to the instrument’s symmetry.

December 30, 2010
by Bonnie Porter
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SHAPES.  We’ve been on the lookout for shapes.  A Christmas clementine skin, for example, took shape as a “S” on the table!  Crafty letters are fun to paint and collage with bright colors, especially on grey indoor days.  Use your digital camera to take pictures of the alphabet shapes you see everyday—I see an “X” at the base of my office chair and I spy an “O” when I glance at my clock.

December 18, 2010
by Bonnie Porter
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KINDERART CHRISTMAS PARTY.  After reading John 1:1 and 14 in English, we learned how to write the word for “Word” in Greek.  “Logos” was not too difficult to write since we practiced copying the lettering several times.  Then we cut out the best one we had colored and attached it to a music sheet of JOY TO THE WORLD.  For a drawing exercise we walked around Mrs. Porter’s house and each one of us found a nativity scene to sketch.  For our fest we frosted Christmas tree cookies before everyone came to our party.

December 2, 2010
by Bonnie Porter
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MORE CEZANNE FRUIT BOWLS.  Remember doing this wax resist technique in elementary school?  
In KinderArt we added a new twist to it by crumbling up the paper in our fists before painting over the crayon colored “painting” with dark blue or purple Tempera paint.  Finished product closely resembles a canvas painting.

December 2, 2010
by Bonnie Porter
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INTERMEZZO LADIES.  This cardinal theme wreath was a group-effort projects.  It represents our love and concern for one of our members.  A tribute to her loss and her indomitable spirit.  
This beginners watercolor class began about 18 months ago.
We have become more than a painting class.  
We talk.  A lot. 
We have become a support group, an art therapy class, a network of a wealth of information and believers in the philosophy that “laughter is the best medicine”!  
Our personal challenges and demands on our time and energies abound.    Yet week after week we manage to come together to be stimulated, uplifted and re-energized for the week ahead.  
And in between times we paint!