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Cezanne and a Pear Still Life
“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 green liquid watercolours to create them. We followed Cezanne’s examples and created a […]
Klimt Style Portraits
“Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt We were inspired by the beautiful portrait that Klimt created called, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer 1. It took the artist 3 years to complete the painting and has since become one of his most famous pieces. The students created whimsical dresses and backgrounds in the style of […]
Picasso Owl Prints
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso For this Picasso project we explored printmaking. During his career, Picasso explored many forms of printmaking including: engraving, etching, drypoint, aquatint, and linocut. We used foam to carve out our own Picasso Owl’s and made […]
Hundertwasser Collage
“We are in need of magic. I fill a picture until it is full with magic, as one fills up a glass with water.” -Hundertwasser The artist known as Hundertwasser was born in Austria in 1928. He is one of the most important artists and architects of the 20th century. One of his main beliefs […]
Frank Lloyd Wright Windows
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” – Frank Lloyd Wright We brightened up the classroom today with stained glass windows in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright. I […]
Valentine’s Day Love Birds
“For this was on St. Valentine’s Day…. When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate.” –Geoffrey Chaucer This Valentine’s day we were inspired by love birds. Our students really got a kick out of using old gift cards to scrape acrylic paint across their paper for the background. I love the way the paints […]
Georgia O’Keeffe – Ladder to the Moon
“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’Keeffe We were inspired by the great American artist, Georgia O’Keeffe and her painting, Ladder to the Moon. It is one of her later works, painted in 1958 when […]
Charcoal Trees – A Different Take on Van Gogh
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent Van Gogh Today we introduced a new drawing medium to our class; charcoal. Vincent Van Gogh was our inspiration as he used charcoal for many of his preliminary sketches for paintings as well as using charcoal as the primary medium in […]
Inspired by Picasso – Line Drawings
“Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?” – Pablo Picasso Our lesson today was inspired by the line drawing by Pablo Picasso of Francoise Gilot, the mother of two of his children. We focussed on the simplicity of line that was used to capture her portrait. […]
A Canadian Landscape – Ted Harrison
“One curator said he didn’t want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!” -Ted Harrison Ted Harrison is a Canadian artist who is famous for his unique paintings of Northern Canadian landscapes. He has the ability to make simple landscapes captivating by dividing the […]