6th Grade Art

Camden has had Art this past 6 weeks, 4 weeks of which have been via e-learning.  Her teacher has been assigning some really cool projects.  She should be switching to a new "special" for the final 6 weeks, but the school decided to keep kids in their current one.  Since Camden loves art and adores this teacher, she is thrilled.

Week one was a computer art project.  Week two, Camden had to watch a few videos then draw a picture along with the artist from one of them.   She ended up watching 4 and submitting all four to her teacher.  These are the best two.

Another week, she was to gather items from outside (or around the house) and create a "found object" piece.  We took a walk down our road and she picked up items along the way and then arranged them on our deck.  The results are actually quite stunning.

Last week she assigned a plein air piece.  Camden sat on our porch and sketched the barn and shed.  Then she used watercolors and colored pencils to add color.

This week, she had to find a famous art piece and recreate it using laundry!  The examples were portraits, landscapes, and even Van Gogh's Starry Night.  I made her find an abstract piece that had simple colors and simple shapes.  She found Mark Rothko's No 2 Blue, Red, Green.  Perfect!

She looks forward to the next assignments.  And so do I since she enjoys them so much!