This year we have been teaching an art class with the boys at the special school that we work at. Knowing that these kids love to draw and color we decided to help them develop their creative art skills. We have taught many of the basics like the color wheel, using shapes to draw different things, perspective and proportion.
As an intro to how artists work, we did a lesson on making still life portraits, using a bowl of fruit as our subject.
We started off with the bowl covered up, then revealed the it slowly, the kids couldn't wait to see what it was!
The lesson went great and we got lots of different interpretations of the bowl of fruit. The hardest part was protecting the fruit from hungry kids who apparently don't get much fresh fruit!
Some of the kids need a helping hand from time to time...
...and some do just great on their own.
Here is a proud class with their drawings, they did a great job!
Here we are having one of the students help us with the perspective/proportion lesson.
Rebecca kicked off the next phase of our class where we will focus on different artists and their techniques with Vincent van Gogh's "Vase with Twelve Sunflowers."
We helped the kids to copy the painting as best as they could.
This was one of the closest to the original, a great rendering.
We really enjoy teaching art to these kids because it allows them to use their hands and create something beautiful. They need to be encouraged to use and increase their talents because this isn't something that they get very much of.
1 comment:
looks like a great time! I wish I was closer and could bring fresh fruit to them...
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