January 29, 2010
by Bonnie Porter
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KINDERART CLASSES. Drawing and Watercolor Painting. At certain ages and stages children are drawn to animals. My set of wooden jungle animals from Africa make good models for drawing from life projects. Negative space is a concept which helps the student draw the trunk and the legs. Using the watercolor sketches found in the Country […]
January 29, 2010
by Bonnie Porter
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KINDERART CLASSES. Same elements: Window, Cat, Curtains. Different interpretations by young artists of different ages.
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!
September 19, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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TAJ MAHAL, Architecture Exercise. Students readily recognized that this “famous building” is a good example of Symmetry. We discussed how to draw it, focusing on breaking it down into shapes. My grand children’s building blocks were used to “construct” a simple model of the Taj Mahal’s basic shapes: rectangles, half circles, squares, and cylinders. Some […]
September 1, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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“The work of children is play.” Using long strips of colorful paper, each KinderArt Home School student creatively constructed a playground. This project involves lots of cutting, taping and paper folding. One idea usually led to another and soon their baseboards were covered with imaginative playground elements.
August 23, 2009
by Bonnie Porter
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KINDERART Home School classes are underway. I had a Full House this week since there was “no child left behind”! Usually at least one family cannot attend or a few children are sick. With 100% attendance we were packed tight around the long table. All of the boys and girls were so well behaved that […]