What do you do when you wake up in the morning and your nuts are frozen?
When you wake up and there is two feet of new snow outside, or it's 20 below zero, it is nice to have other things to do as you sympathize with the squirrel outside with frozen nuts and nothing much else to look forward to. We can look forward to something new to learn.
This week we continue with our same composer (Haydn) and artist (Stuart) as last week. We aren't doing much this week other than listening to the music and looking at the painting. It is summer now and the outdoors is calling to us. Next week we will have a new composer.
Week 6 Composer Study: Haydn
1. Continue listening to The Creation by Haydn by listening to Part 3 (of 3) this week. This will conclude our study of Haydn.
This week we continue with our same composer (Haydn) and artist (Stuart) as last week.
Week 5 Composer Study: Haydn
1. Continue listening to The Creation by Haydn by listening to Part 2 (of 3) this week. Next week Part 3 will conclude listening to The Creation by Haydn.
We continue with Haydn as our composer and begin looking at another artist--Gilbert Stuart.
Week 4 Composer Study: Haydn
The Creation by Haydn will be started this week. Since it is very long, we will split it up over three weeks. This week will be part 1 which is about 40 minutes long.
1. Listen to The Creation, Part 1 of 3, by Haydn.
Week 4 Artist Study: Gilbert Stuart The next three weeks we will spend looking at the paintings of Gilbert Stuart.
1. This weeks painting by Gilbert Stuart is The Skater (Portrait of William Grant) 1782
2. Read about Gilbert Stuart in apdf file in the InsideScoop from 2005. He painted many faces including several of our early presidents. This file includes those images.
3. Compare winter scenes of Gilbert, Avercamp and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, shown below. How are they the same? How are they different? How do they make you feel?
4. Art Lesson for this week: Make a quick sketch of students playing on a playground (or ice skating).
Week 3 continues with the same composer and artist as week 1 & 2: Haydn and Copley. Week 3 Composer: Franz Josef Haydn -- London Symphony (in 4 parts) 1. Listen to London Symphony, 1st Movement (about 5 minutes) 2. Listen to London Symphony, 2nd Movement (about 7 minutes) 3. Listen to London Symphony, 3rd Movement (about 5 minutes) 4. Listen to London Symphony,4th Movement (about 5 minutes)
London, 1st Movement
London, 2nd Movement
London, 3rd Movement
London, 4th Movement
Week 3 Artist: John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815) -- The Red Cross Knight, 1793
Red Cross Knight by John Singleton Copley
1. View The Red Cross Knight at one of these sites: here or here.
2. Create a Lune poem about this work of art. Use the worksheet found here to help you. Instructions on how to write a Lune poem and a sample poem can be found here.
3. Read over the information on The Red Cross Knight. Did you know this painting illustrates an episode from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene? Below is the version of the Faerie Queene we read.
Art Lesson for this week:
Select one or more of the following activities to do this week.
A Self-Portrait using crayons (sutitable for young students)
NGA Faces & Places--Portraits: Make your own portraiture. Use the online program to create a face and background and print out your final product. The portrait printed about 4x5 inches on my computer.
Faces & Places--Landscapes: Use this online program to create a landscape. We had a lot of fun with this one. It printed out about 4x7 inches on my computer. It also has animation and music.
Artistic Pursuits Jr High book 1 - lesson 5 Neutrals - This has a lesson on how to draw skin colors followed by student drawing a self portrait in neutral pastels.
Reflective Silhouette - 8th grade lesson on contour drawing using a silhouette of student
And from our favorite funny, here is how to draw the squirrel in the comic below.
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