Progression in an Art Project

So I finished my art project a while back but haven't done up a post to tell you about it.   Today is that day as I sit huddled in a cuddle blanket because baby it's cold outside.  :)

I started this project with the high hopes that my lad would join in and make one of his own, but the method and the medium where just too different for him to wrap his head around, so I made it sitting next to him as he worked on his own project.  This gave me the opportunity to say.. so this is what I am doing now.. what do you think?   Or do you think if I do this it might work?   This proved to be a really really good thing to do.  He gave me some great ideas as well.  :)

I started off drawing a generalized picture of some mountains.  My son had started a pencil sketch of the mountains at the same time. 

I then started to layer some tissue paper over my drawing, folding it in to create mountain peaks, layering over top of each to hopefully create depth and shading.  All my tissue paper came from gifts or wrap that some stores use when you buy clothes from them.   The brown paper came from a book review.  Each layer was modge-podged well together and left to dry between episodes.

As you can see the mountains gradually came together.   I even showed my lad a quick way to add a touch of colour and he was quite surprised at how easy it was. 

Since this was a work in transition I wasn't quite sure what I really wanted to do with it.  I knew I wanted some texture and colour and to make something unique to peak the interest of my lad, so when the mountains where done I added some green trees (just triangles of tissue).  Then I got the brainstorm of adding some clouds that were fluffy.   Oh my...You should have seen the surprise on my boys face!!   Then he said "MOM!   That works!   Can I do one too?"

We talked about whether we should leave them white or experiment with how we could turn them into black rain clouds, but the risk was we'd wreck them so the risk was rejected.
 
The trunk caused a bit an issue for me.

I wanted to find a way to add some texture as my thought was to have the trunk pop out a bit... like seeing a tree in the foreground and having the background fade away behind it.

I tried laying tissue paper.. looked horrible and I thought "OH NO!!   It's been ruined!!!"  But then I got to thinking I could cover up the horribleness with twisted strands of tissue paper.   And it worked!   

You should have heard the lad.... "Mom.. I really like that.  You did a better job doing that then the other paper. "

He helped me cut the limbs for the top of the tree.  He volunteered to help me out with this.   Having the limbs hang out over the edge of the paper was his genius at work.
 

 The canoe.. oh my....

This was HARD to do.   We tried a number of things to make a realistic canoe and nothing really worked.  I finally looked for a canoe picture and VERY carefully cut it out, then traced out a canoe bottom and glued that together.

Then I added a piece of foam to the bottom to make it stand out from the bottom.   The lad chose the location and then we were done. 

Dad pronounced it well done and the lad WILL NOT let me remove it.  It stays on display in the bookroom and it makes me smile.  :)

This abstractly, see how it does art, was just so much fun to do and made for much conversation twixt the lad and myself.  I LOVE IT!!!  (the smiles it brings to me as I think back over it).
 
So what fly by the seat of your pants art have you made lately?  

Going to link this up at Kym's and Charleen's Art Post thing they have going on.   


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Art Series: Sister Wendy's Story of Painting

It is my total delight to introduce DoodleMom to you, also known as Kirsten to the blog today. I put a call out for people to do an art book post for the blog and Kirsten stepped up to the challenge. :)


Kirsten blogs at  DoodleMom's Homeschooling Life and is a new to me blogger this year.  Let me tell you...she is a gal who makes me think and ponder in a way I sometimes don't expect and that is a good thing eh?  :)  Keeps me from being stagnant and who wants that eh?

 Sister Wendy's Story of Painting

I did not notice until recently that a very proper and very, very smart nun with a history of teaching English and Art was also a master of polite sarcasm. 

My kids and I were watching Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting (available free on Docuwatch) and reading another chapter in her book of the same name. Art history with Sister Wendy reinforces and makes additional connections to the events and people of the history the kids are learning, as well as helping them to understand composition and technique. And Sister Wendy is also teaching my kids the fine art of polite sarcasm. 

My children sat on either side of me, magnifying glasses in hand so they could investigate each tiny detail of the paintings discussed in the text. We were looking over Sister Wendy’s comparison of illuminations from England, France, Ireland, and Spain, all from the same rough time period. And we came to this statement, “Like the Irish monks, the British also produced manuscripts of great beauty, this being one of the very few periods in which the least visual of national groups, the English speakers, attained international fame as artists.” “Hmmm,” I thought to myself. As we continued, my children began to pick up on the sarcasm as well. 

We got to the section discussing the Bayeux Tapestry and Sister Wendy wrote, “It displays the same jerky animation that we find in English manuscripts. A sort of Anglo-Saxon glorified comic strip…” Finally we read through the section on French illumination in which Sister Wendy wrote, “A lovely missal survives…,” and “…with a magnificent pictorial “O” and…” “OK,” said my son. “She definitely likes the French best and the English least.”  While her sarcasm stings and is quite apparent, it is also exceedingly polite. A grand way to show her preferences and dislikes. 

And, once my children recognized her sarcasm, the whole activity of studying art became an interactive one. First understanding Sister Wendy’s preferences, the reasons behind them, enjoying her wit, and finally forming their own opinions on the art or artist in question. All in all, a perfect way to study art.

Where to Find More

Book:
Amazon.ca: Sister Wendy's Story of Painting

Amazon.com: Sister Wendy's Story of Painting


Documentary: Sister Wendy`s Story of Painting (6 episodes)

 

 

About Kirsten

Kirsten West is a Christian Homeschooling Mom who blogs at DoodleMom's Homeschooling Life. 

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The East Gate to the Outer Court

Today we are reading from Ezekiel 40:1-4. Last time we met we learned about how we should respond to a word or vision from the Lord God:  Look, hear and Set Your Heart. You can read more in my Ezekiel Studies here and here.

Ezekiel is given a vision from the Lord God:    The bronze man with the measuring stick had work to do measuring in the city like structure that Ezekiel saw.  

⁵ And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man's hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed. ⁶ Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep. ⁷ And the side rooms, one reed long and one reed broad; and the space between the side rooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end, one reed. ⁸ Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed. ⁹ Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end. ¹⁰ And there were three side rooms on either side of the east gate. The three were of the same size, and the jambs on either side were of the same size. ¹¹ Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits. ¹² There was a barrier before the side rooms, one cubit on either side. And the side rooms were six cubits on either side. ¹³ Then he measured the gate from the ceiling of the one side room to the ceiling of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; the openings faced each other. ¹⁴ He measured also the vestibule, sixty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court. ¹⁵ From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits. ¹⁶ And the gateway had windows all around, narrowing inwards toward the side rooms and toward their jambs, and likewise the vestibule had windows all around inside, and on the jambs were palm trees.
 
All these exact measurements taken, everything just so exact.  Did you notice there were no half-measures?  Each measure was full.  Complete.  A complete Integer (sorry, math is on my brain since a math program my son is using, is using the term integer incorrectly). 

But nothing is lacking here.  Everything is just as it should be.  

All this exactness.  Makes me wonder what Ezekiel thought as he saw this. Was he desperately trying to remember the numbers?  The room locations?  Where the windows where?    How was he taking in this vision so he could adequately convey to the Israelites?

How do I take in God's word?  Ezekiel was told to Look, Hear and Set Himself in regards to what he would see and then later tell to the people.  Was he just seeing the rooms and the act of measuring?   Did he see that measuring as a sign of God's action toward the people?

It's hard to know at this point eh?

That's all I see in this reading so far.  I am wondering what Ezekiel will see in the next section.   More temple/city like structure area and more measurements or something else? 
  
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