Sunday Morning Art Lessons

Week 2 of Sunday Morning Art Lessons: Artists Imagine

J opened the lesson by talking about how artists use their imagination to create art: they begin with ideas and gather information for their artwork. We then went on a walk around the neighborhood to gather some inspiration. We made some sketches of what we saw in our imagination when we looked at something ordinary in our world. When we got back we talked about the painter Marc Chagall (specifically in reference to two of his works: The Birthday & I and the Village) and how he used his imagination to show ordinary things in his life. Then, using our ideas from our sketches, we drew a picture of something we saw and used our imagination to show it in a different way. After our drawing was done we filled it in with watercolor pencils and then the fun really began! Using water and brushes we were able to blend our colors together to make a masterpiece!

learning about how artists use their imaginations

off on the walk

T sketching a flowering bush -
in his imagination the flowers were huge teeth

J talking to M about texture on the bark of a tree

my artwork for the day

T doing some more sketching

J talking about the reflections on water -
mainly the clouds/sky and trees

sketching away

T hanging out in the gazebo,
sketching a bit more before returning home

Marc Chagall - The Birthday

Marc Chagall - I and the Village

watercolor color wheel 

watercolor pencils

sketching out our final drawings

watercolor pencil time

J's version of the spray from the water fountain

M's imagination showed a whole beech seen at the pond

M's finished masterpiece -
(T's attention span was shot after only a few minutes back,
he did a bit of coloring/painting and then was DONE)