Such a surreal time this past week! Your children learned all about Salvador Dali and his life time as one of the very rare "living famous" artists! We learned that the definition of Surreal is real with a little twist. We also talked about how dreams were a great source of inspiration for Surrealist artists like Salvador Dali because of their real/not real aspects! Such a fun lesson! The students all worked on portraits of Salvador Dali who was well known for his many fabulous mustache styles! They learned that a portrait is a picture of someone while a self portrait would be of themselves! For this project they even got to work in watercolor paint! On these portraits we worked first in Sharpie to create the outline and then finished them up with watercolor! The kids thought that it looked really neat! I completely agree!!! My younger students even got to do mustache portraits but they worked in marker and it was just a one day project. They loved seeing pictures of Salvador and that mustache! I could not get enough of their reactions! Just ask them about him...really! They also did another one day project similar to Dali's long leg animals! We talked about how the animal was mostly extremely realistic while their legs seemed to be a mile long! The kids got to create their own realistic animals while I added pipe cleaner legs that they could manipulate! So much fun!
Next week we are moving on to a line study. Most of the kids mentioned that they worked on line earlier in the year, but I know that is just going to help make them experts. We will run right through the lesson quickly and get into using lines to illustrate (Harold and the Purple Crayon for the younger students, and Ralph Steadman for the older students), and even work on some 3 dimensional lines while we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss! Which, by the way, is TODAY! Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Anyhow, on to the awesome art we made this week!!
No comments:
Post a Comment