by taswann | Apr 23, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“All the good ideas I ever had came to me while milking a cow.” – Grant Wood Today we looked at the artist, Grant Wood, an American painter born in 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa. We learned about his life and career and based our own art project on one of...
by taswann | Apr 23, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt and his masterpiece, Farmhouse with Birch Trees served as the inspiration for our tape resist watercolour project. The students learned how to create a foreground, middleground and...
by taswann | Apr 10, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh Road with Cypress and Star by Van Gogh inspired our project today. We started our session learning about the fascinating life of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the...
by taswann | Apr 9, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.” – John James Audubon We started off our Spring Session at Humbercrest Public School with a colourful peacock drawing inspired by the artist, John James Audubon. The students really...
by taswann | Mar 21, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” – Georgia O’Keefe Georgia O’Keefe is a famous American painter most known for her beautiful paintings of...
by taswann | Mar 21, 2013 | Previous Posts, Projects
“With an apple I will astonish Paris.” – Paul Cezanne Paul Cezanne inspired our students to do a still life study with pears. We had beautiful ripe forelle pears for the students to observe and used old encyclopedia pages with yellow, orange and...
