Degas inspired ballerina craft {Virtual Fridge}

This Week
We are continuing our immersion in Edward Degas.  This week we made this super easy ballerina inspired craft. You can download the template and instructions for these ballerina's over at Crafts & Parties.

You can find more Degas inspired ideas on my Pinterest Artist Studies - Degas Board.


This weeks Feature

This weeks feature is a tutorial from over at Our Unschooling Journey Through Life.
Your Turn

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.

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Chareen

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Get Into Art Animals {Tuesday's Treasures}

One of the things I enjoy about our library visits is discovering new books to bring home and explore. Upon a recent visit to our local library I discovered a new book with plenty of hands on step by step projects. Get into Art Animals is not a typical art projects book. 

This book is two fold in it's approach.  Firstly it introduces the reader to a famous art piece and the artist who created it, then it gives a step by step hands on project for you to create your own version of the art work you have just learned about.

Susie encourages us to know that art is not only something we observe but rather something that we can all do, she does a wonderful job encouraging the reader to try new mediums to create their own masterpieces of art.

The Details

• Title: Get into Art Animals
• Format: Hardback
• Number of Pages:31 
• Publisher: Pan MacMillan  
• Publication Date:20 Aug 2013 
• ISBN 10: 0753470586 
• ISBN 13:9780753470589 
• Author  Susie Brooks 
• Illustrator: 

There are 12 art pieces and artists:

1. The Snail - Henri matisse
2. Suspense - Sir Edwin Landseer
3. Crinkly Giraffe - Alexander Calder
4. The Bird - Georges Braque
5. Peacock and Magpie - Edward Bawden
6. Fish - MC Escher
7. Carnival of Harlequin - Joan Miro
8. Totem Poles - Wayne Alfred, Beau Dick and Ellen Neel
9. Yellow Cow - Franz Marc
10. Dragon Dish - Chinese Artist
11. Portrait of Maurice - Andy Warhol
12. Jockeys in the Rain - Edgar Dagas

Other Books in the Series

• Get Into Art People
• Get into Art: Stories
• Get Into Art: Places

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Chareen

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Wayne Thiebaud {Artist Study}

We've spent the last month working on a Repeated Sweets water colour painting in our art class. We have been using a DVD from See The Light. It's the first time either of us have painted using water colours in this way. We enjoyed the process and I'm pleased with the outcome.

Chareen repeated sweets: cupcakes

Nathaniel's repeated sweets: Donuts

On YouTube

• Wayne Thiebaud - CBS 
• Visit with Wayne Thiebaud in his studio as he prepares for a traveling retrospective of his work from the past 50 years. Original air date: March 2009. 
• Wayne Thiebaud: Beyond the Cakes  
• The Delicious Paintings  for Children
• Wayne Thiebaud in conversation with Susan Krane, Oshman Executive Director.
• Making a plate to print paintings with Wayne Thiebaud 2014
• Show of paintings  from Wayne Thiebaud
• Elementary Art Lesson:Wayne Thiebaud Cupcake Lesson 
• Gumball Machine Art Lesson 

On the WWW

• Art Gallery of Wayne Thiebaud Paintings
• Wayne Thiebaud Is Not a Pop Artist  (Smithsonian)
• Celebrate the joy of living - A biography

Hands on projects

• In the Style of - Wayne Thiebaud - Art for small hands
• Lesson: Wayne Thiebaud Clay Cupcakes 
• Thiebaud’s Cake Math (elementary version) 

On Pinterest
Follow Every Bed of Roses's board Artist Studies - Wayne Thiebaud on Pinterest.

Your Turn

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.

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5 Books on Studying Artists

This months theme for the Poppins Book Nook is ARTISTS.  Art can be a sensitive topic among home educating families. It all boils down to your preference and your personal home educating philosophy.

I have a passion for twaddle free living literature and have been collecting books for many years now.  Today I would like to share five of my favorite go to books and five art projects we have enjoyed this year.

If you would like more information on a book click on the link below the graphic.

Until Next month

Blessings
Chareen


5 Beautiful Art Books on Artist Study

The Usborne ART Treasury

Katie and the Waterlily Pond

Katie and the Mona Lisa

The Usborne Book of Famous Paintings

A Year in Art A Painting a Day

 5 Easy Art Projects to enjoy with your Children

Tessellating Tile Art found in The Usborne ART Treasury on pages 84 -87.

Clown Collage inspired by Picasso - page 22 and 23 of The Usborne ART Treasury.

Fish in the sea pictured inspired by The Golden Fish by Paul Klee. 
We used The Usborne ART Treasury on page 28-31.

Modrian Inspired Art

Artist Study {Claude Monet}

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