We are loving our walk through American Artists while we study American History. To do this, we are using Great American Artists for Kids as the backbone of our art education. Our artist of the week was Grandma Moses. We have studied her before but we still enjoyed learning about her art.
We always start our lesson by reading any books that I can fins from the library or in my own collection about the artist. J then completes an artist page for her notebook.
I showed J a few ideas of projects for Grandma Moses and she chose the winter landscape (or should I call it a lambscape - as Grandma called them when she was a little girl). She decided to use card stock as her paper and oil pastels.
She first drew the sledding scene with pencils and colored it with her oil pastels. After, she colored it, she used white paint and a q-tip to paint snowflakes on her art work.
Her final folk art picture. I love how she drew a hibernating rabbit who was keeping out of the cold underground along with his carrot lunch! Love this! Have an awesome day.
Links
Harrington Harmonies - has a cute 4 seasons project for Grandma Moses using the same scene.
Making Art Fun - has a printable history of Grandma Moses to read to your children.
Art Education Blog - has a great art landscape art project using ice skaters.
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