Rembrandt

Today was our first day of "art" since having Baby Water Bug. The kids are always drawing, painting or making crafts but today was our first organized (is that the right word?) art lesson. We talked about Rembrandt and studied his masterpiece: "Man With Helmet." We added new words to our Art Word Wall--monochromatic, shade and tint. We went over correct placement of the eyes, nose, mouth, ears and neck when drawing a face. The kids then drew portaits and painted them using only one color. Stink Bug did cry over having to paint the whole paper leaving no white showing. Jitter Bug cried that he couldn't make his face like mine but quickly got over it (mine was no masterpiece!). I had to keep telling him that whatever he did was great. In the end they looked GREAT! I'm looking forward to hanging them up! Next week we will be looking at Paul Klee's "The Goldfish."
Linz
the picture up top is all that was left when the kids were done