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One Last Art Class

3/27/2018

 
Narae's children's art classes ran for six weeks, but there were so many kids who wanted to come that she had to run two separate classes per week. Both classes did the exact same things, but I only photographed one of each project - so three projects per group.

On the final week, Narae introduced her students to the work of Laurel Burch
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"This week I want to introduce everyone to the world of Laurel Burch.
​She's famous for her very colourful paintings of cats."
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"I will take you step by step through drawing cats like hers, "
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"...and then you can decorate them any way you want,
​with any patterns or colours you like... just like she does."
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Paige handed everyone two sheets of paper...
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Then Narae did a step-by-step drawing of a cat's head with everyone....
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Then she showed everyone how to draw the body of a simple seated cat....
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....as everyone followed along...
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"Now, everyone take your second sheet of paper, and we will draw a standing cat.
​First we draw the head, just like before..."
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Everyone followed along....
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"And now we draw the simple body, like this..."
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"And now for the fun part.....you may decorate your cats in any way that you like. You may use one of these designs for inspiration, or you can make up your own.  And then colour your cats."
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Dorothy
3/27/2018 03:34:40 pm

Martha, I love the fact that you gave the children (and us) an art history lesson within the art lessons. I am sure we enjoyed the lessons as much as the children did!

Martha
3/27/2018 04:31:56 pm

LOL Well, it helps to give some background on what they are going to do. I always had lots of samples of the artist's work that we were going to be 'inspired' by.

Jane
3/27/2018 03:53:23 pm

I wish I had had an art teacher like Narae when I was young......I would have loved her as much as all these little Iplehouse dolls love her! LOL!

Martha
3/27/2018 04:39:47 pm

I would have liked that too, but alas, kids don't get much quality art these days. Which is why I volunteered to teach art at my kid's school when the youngest two went there. I enjoyed it as much as the kids (and teachers) so continued long after my kids graduated and moved on. My goal was to get the kids to have fun making something they'd be proud to take home - and maybe learn something in the process. All with just the few materials available in the school stock room.

All the art class projects in this series were originally done with real kids at different grade levels. Unfortunately, once children were introduced to the computer starting in kindergarten, their fine motor skills just didn't develop anymore, and things that we used to do in grade four (for example) had to be bumped up to grade 6 or 7. And even then the results weren't the same.

Melissa
3/31/2018 10:55:48 am

Yessssssss. This was my absolute favourite thing to do in Grade 4. Our teacher was a HUGE Laurel Burch fan, so this is what she chose for our pastel unit. I think I must have made about 12 of them it was so fun.

Thank you for this lovely trip down memory lane. <3

Martha
3/31/2018 04:36:15 pm

I love when my pictures bring back fond memories for others. The series was a trip down 'memory lane' for me too, but from the teacher's viewpoint.


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