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Homeschooling gives us GREAT creative license!
Here is a picture drawn at the beginning of October, 2002, as an illustration for our history reading ("Our Country Story") on Christopher Columbus. This piece is titled Christopher Columbus Sitting on a Rock, Looking at one of his Ships ...drawn by my DD, age 5yo. This was made by me following the instructions in Draw Write Now, and drawing each step on a white board, which my DD duplicated on her history narration page. (We have since decided that it is too difficult to get "best work" results with crayons, so we've switched to using colored pencils for illustrations.)
Here is a horse drawn mid-October, 2002, again using Draw Write Now as her guide (but this time without my help.) This is titled Horse with saddle, eating. Below it, you can see the painting that inspired her to draw a horse. (Soldiers of the Tenth Light Dragoons, 1793, George Stubbs) This drawing was child-directed, meaning I had absolutely no plans to have an art session at that time. Instead, I'd only planned to do a 2-page spread for Art Appreciation from "A Child's Book of Play in Art" by Lucy Micklethwait. But, because we homeschool, we were able to take her desire and follow through with a drawing. You can read more about our Art Appreciation by visiting our Kindergarten page. (Scroll to the bottom of it.)
Because my DD decided to try her hand at drawing, I felt compelled to follow suit. Here is my attempt at duplicating Queen Elizabeth I, inspired by another painting on that same 2-page spread in the same book. This was drawn freehand, just looking at the image in the book.(Note: Yes, you're right, I left her hands out. Drawing hands has always intimidated me, so I opted to leave them out! LOL Additionally, I took some liberty in changing a few things to my liking.) Keep in mind, I've not had any formal art classes past elementary school, so my skills are limited, but I keep on.
Inspired by an art lesson in Five In a Row volume one for the picture book, Madeline, my daughter tried her hand at a Monochromatic painting. Monochromatic is defined as "Variations on one hue only. In this color scheme a pure hue is used only with black and/or white, thereby creating shades (black) and tint (white) of the pure hue of blue." I think she captured this idea very well!
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This one is by my daughter. |
This is a sampling by other unknown people. |
The following works are the results in a small lesson on SYMMETRY. This lesson was inspired by a Five in a Row unit study on the children's book Madeline. We looked for symmetrical illustrations throughout the book, discussed symmetry in general, looked for symmetry in our home, and then painted the items shown below. Quite fun! |
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This one is by my daughter. |
This was my own. |