The first project they worked on was an abstract landscape painting of Vancouver.
We first discussed how an artist abstracts a painting. Then looking at a reference of photograph of Vancouver that they chose, each student decided how to abstract the shape, color and line to create their own original abstracted painting.
The five year old focused on the Inuksuk in English Bay.
He truly enjoyed mixing the paint colors while creating this work of art.
The nine year old chose a very complicated photograph of the seawall in Stanley Park. I found it quite interesting to see him simplify the enormous amount of trees in the park by using a solid pink and just indicating a few of them in his painting.
The seven year old focused on the lighthouse in West Vancouver. She took out everything but the lighthouse and then made this conscious decision to keep her painting all in one color. She spent an enormous amount of time mixing just the right color for each area and this is a very thought out piece of art. Interesting she chose such a warm color palette as we have had an unusually cold and snowy winter last month! Maybe she is wishing for warmer days......
At the end, each child cleaned up their lines with a blue and black oil pastel to finish the painting.
They went home with the artist this week and I miss being able to enjoy them hanging on the studio wall.
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