Day 1, Art in the Park

Seven delightful 3rd graders took part in today's art lessons. First we made name magnets to serve as an attendance marker and to help Ms. Saxe (me) to learn names. Those will stay with the students all week and then on the last day they'll take them home. Some shots of our rapid progress with the magnets:

Our final project was a Me-mobile combining a self-portrait with mobile that would move in the wind. We all talked about what a self-portrait was and looked at Durer's painted self-portrait. Just to make the point clear, we also looked at the Mona Lisa and everyone understood it was not a self-portrait, but a portrait that Da Vinci had painted of someone else. A short demo of how to construct the mobile followed and the kids took it from there, deciding on their own whether and how to make arms and legs.

We finished in time to clean up and pose with artists and self-portraits:

Thanks to all the artists who helped to make this a perfectly creative day!

Comments

[rivergardenstudio]

Oh... these are wonderful! When I retire I want to do things like this... what a beautiful setting a children... I took a closer look and their faces our so proud and silly, and so much fun! Roxanne