Q1W1 - Art

     We do art twice a week, on the first day the 2nd Grader does an Art With A Purpose lesson and the Kindergartener does his Kumon books, which include -- More Let's Color, Let's Fold, More Let's Cut Paper, My First Book of Tracing, and Make a Match: Level 1, and on the second day do some type of artist study and project.
     This week we did the first lesson in artpac 2 which focuses on coloring, cutting, & pasting skills.

















     I am not including pictures of what the Kindergartener did with his Kumon books, because they are to numerous. In about 20 minutes he did nine activities each in the matching and tracing books, one coloring page, three cutting pages, and four folding pages, before I told him that was enough and he could do more next week.
   
     On the second day of art we started an artist study of Fra Angelico and studied his fresco of The Adoration of the Magi, which he did in San Marco, Florence in a monk's cell in a Dominican Monastery in 1445.
     We learned that a fresco is a painting that is done on either wet or dry plaster on a wall and that this particular fresco was the same shape and size as the window in the cell. Fresco's, when painted on wet plaster lasted longer and could only be done in the amount of time that a painter could paint in about 10 hours.
     I only have a picture of my 2nd Grader's fresco, because my Kindergartener decided that after he painted his fresco that it would look better if he used it as play-dough, and so he no longer has a fresco.

This fresco was made using Watercolor's and a flour paste for the plaster.

     Normally a fresco is made with Plaster of Paris, but since we did not have any, I made a flour "plaster" instead.