We are working our way through Great American Artist for Kids and our artist of the week was Edward Hicks. What I love about this book is that it starts with early artists at the birth of our country and works its way through the timeline. It contains information about each artist as well as a simple project for each. Edward Hicks was an early American folk artist who was also a Quaker minister.
We usually read about the artist and add some information to an artist notebook page. We looked over a few of his paintings on the internet.
We added Edward Hicks to our timeline.
We also have a wall of artists that we add to every time we learn about a new one. J writes a fact on an index card along with the artist's picture.
Here are our artists on our wall. We have studied four artists so far.
The art project was to create a collage based on Edward Hicks' The Peaceable Kingdom. J was to look for pictures of animals in magazines and create a collage of sorts. Well, for some reason I couldn't find any animal magazines (thought I had some and even went to the library to buy some used!). J used a book about dinosaurs that was in give-away bag. J was funny about cutting up a book - I always taught her to respect books.
I brought out some different items - buttons, feathers, ribbon, newspaper... and this is what J came up with. I think she used all of the buttons I own! I love the feather in the dinosaur nest. I love to see what J comes up with when we do art. We are learning a lot and being introduced to many artists that we had never seen before. I love that! See you soon.
Links
Incredible Art - has an art project idea for the artist Edward Hicks.
Insta Reyog - has a post full of pictures of Edwards Hicks paintings.
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