Day 4

Today began with some lesson design planning time. I asked Lori and Wind to collaborate with me and help me brainstorm ideas. We talked about how to implement the things we've learned into our current curriculum. It became apparent that the lesson needed three or four days to do it justice.

After this time we went up to the Forum to learn about how children learn, in particular how they learn to create art and their schema development. It was interesting information that deserves more time! Remember when you were little and you drew a person with a circle for a head, two eyes and a mouth and two straight lines for legs? and gradually your person began to have arms, fingers, hair, a torso. Children make marks to symbolize things. Ask them 'tell me what's going on here', 'can you tell me more?".

The rest of the day was spent painting and drawing! Some of us painted wacky faces, others painted exaggerated dissected vegetables and fruit. Two inch squares of dried tempera paint (in cyan, magenta and yellow) were attached to our painting surface. Color mixing in small sections of each square was remarkably easy and effective. I was with the Wacky Faces group. When I showed my work to my husband he observed it looked like a coastline! That was completely unintentional!

Tempera paint chips attached with rubber cement

the unintentioanl coastline of wacky face

some of the fruit paintings



Drawing Time

exploration drawing using a variety of neutral hued tools such as marker, charcoal, pastel

Large white butcher paper strips covered our tables and we were instructed to play with the tools before us!

After some time in one place we rotated around the table to a new spot and interacted with the drawing in front of us!

more to follow...need to get ready for class now, it's the last day of 'school' today