This month in art 6yo is studying tints and shades. We've been using the art of James Whistler and Claude Monet to discuss how artists use tints and shades in paintings. Today, after looking for a while at Whistler's Arrangement in Black and Gray No. 1 (better known as Whistler's Mother), he had to create his own drawing also using calm and subtle shades and using a model. He was also to use various arrangements of rectangles like Whistler did. So, he sat me down as his model. He asked me change clothes into black and white and sit at the piano bench. Since it was a long process, I settled down there with a book on Indo-European Language and Culture while he carefully drew me, including coming up to compare shades of colored pencils against my hair, skin and the piano. Here is the result.
Arrangement in Brown, Black and White (also known as M's Mother), by AM, February 7, 2008
2 comments:
Looks great!!! Do you have an art curriculum or are you making the lessons?
We use K12 art which is really, really awesome. It's probably my favorite part of the K12 curriculum. I'll be blogging more about it soon.
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