Welcome, hope you had a nice safe break, are you ready for some art fun. Here are some warm up pages to get you started!
Summer art into the 2021-22 School Year
Over the summer I worked on 2 very special chairs they were build by our very own Mr. H and sold in our 2020-21 on line fund raiser auction.
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| Frida Chair primed |
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| Frida Details |
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| Frida Chair |
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| The fire/flower heart came out lovely |
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| Vincent was all blues and greens with glowing touches and yellow/gold |
Back to school with a lot of Safety Guidelines
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| Made a safety banner for the first week of school |
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| Lovely first week of school treats |
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| A few books to share the first week of Art |
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Alma Thomas is an inspiring artist   |
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| Bisa Butlers use of color and pattern is amazing |
The world of Spiders
Students learned about the amazing world of the spider and how they are different from and insect.
Also took a look at famous spiders in literature!
Building vocabulary and drawing skills.
Observation and Imagination equal Creation
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| Louise Bourgeois is an artist who often used a spider/mother image in her art work |
Porch Stories With Mrs. Kane & Ms. Jane - Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh can't sleep, this is the new book featured on Porch Stories.
Spotlight Artist/Scientist Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the early European naturalists to observe insects directly.
Reprinted with from Women in Science. Copyright © 2016 by Rachel Ignotofsky.
Published by Ten Speed Press,
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| This is wonderful book about her life |
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| Images from the book above |
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| a page from the book |
For more information about Maria Merian I recommend these videos
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