Greetings!
Last week in kindergarten, we finished creating our own stained glass windows on transparency film and aluminum foil. In 1st grade, we continued working on the mountain detail on Themistokles von Eckenbrecher's Summer on the Ljingenfjord with closer attention to forming the snow banks on the sides and peaks of the mountains. This week, the scholars in kindergarten will begin a new work of art by the early 20th century American artist, Georgia O'Keeffe, called My Shanty, Lake George. This is a landscape painting of the mountains and trees surrounding a farm house where O'Keeffe spent a summer in 1922. The scholars will immediately notice that despite being an impressionist painting, My Shanty has particularly dark shading and color (with the exception of light green on the grass), contrasting sharply with the very bright impressionist work of Claude Monet that they have been working on for the past 2 quarters. In 1st grade, the scholars will continue working on Eckenbrecher's Summer on the Ljingenfjord, as they will be finishing the mountain detail and begin working on the subtle shading of the clouds above the mountains. As this project comes to a close, I am amazed at the incredible effort and detail being put into the student art. I look forward to seeing the continued artistic growth of our scholars! Comments are closed.
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February 2019
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