 Our Home Schooling Project.
General Comments.It is something very special to be able to have a part to play in the education of your grandchildren. In my case, art!
We decided to have a reasonably long art project after they had been taught the basics about drawing, shading, perspective, composition, colours and the simple use of the colour wheel.
It was time to put it all into practice with a project that involved a piece of canvas, acrylic paint and if desirable, other materials.
Part of the project was measuring out the required space, decide on a theme and having to come up with a different idea with every picture (without grandad's help), something which proved harder then first thought! The artwork had to be kept clean while working on it and had to be finished off with a shaded "frame". In Elena's case she was allowed to produce a frame with a stamp/print technique. Well, below is the result, judge for yourself. Please enlarge the page/picture with your browser/zoom facility if so desired.
Isabelle's first painting on canvas: "A bee stinging a butterfly"
Although not part of the home schooling activities, Isabelle looooves art! She is a busy bright four year old and not afraid to try unconventional methods and techniques, that way developing herself rapidly.
Whether it is painting, drawing, cutting paper or using miles of sellotape, she loves it all!
Isabelle's fearsome lion.
Marieta's imaginative world.
Marieta made this painting when she was twelve years old. She is a girl with a vivid imagination and determination which shows in her paintings. Starting off as a village square,
she soon ventured out from blue squirrels to fire breathing dragons, spotty moose and scary reptiles. She has a scene of ferocious fighting ants, moving from a rustique crumbly old cottage to a very lovely and colourful big fat lovingly flying bumblebee.
Marieta's wheat-field study from Van Gogh in oil on panel.
Marieta's landscape-study from Paul Cezanne in oil on panel.
Renee's colourful animals.
Ten years old Renee loves colours and manages to use them generally very effectively.
The bold cute lion and the colourful caterpillar are eye catching features. The lovely sleek lizard and the winged snail are not far behind. The busy painting elephant in the centre was the starting point and she ventured out into all these imaginary animals with the most wonderful colours. The peacock in full display of his feathers and the blue flying dragon all part of her world.
Renee"s night-sky study from Van Gogh in oil on panel.
Renee's landscape-study from Paul Cezanne in oil on panel.
; Elena's under water fantasy world.
Elena choose to express the under-water world. Being the youngest of the group at the age of eight, she does certainly not lag behind performance-wise.
Although her expressions are in a cartoon-style, she managed to get outside the general way of thinking and coloured her fish in the most wonderful way. She connects the underwater world with ours by supplying them with lipstick, false eyelashes, earphones and sunglasses.
Elena's landscape-study from Paul Cezanne in oil on panel - in progress.
Elena's landscape-study from Paul Cezanne in oil on panel - Finished.
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