Grant Wood style farm landscape

Kindergarteners learned some tricks to create the illusion of depth of space in their landscape.  Artists place objects low on the page when they are near, and higher on the page when they are far.  Artists also change the size of an object to show where it is in space.  Our pumpkin farm landscapes have the feeling of rich, rolling hills like those in Grant Wood's paintings.

getting started

the beginnings of a collagraph print...

Third graders are building excitement as we layer on the textures for our collagraph printing plates.  Here's a sneak peek at the assembly of a plate:

woven and ridged textures

fuzzy and foamy shapes

rhythm and movement

positive/negative

project updates

Here are a few outstanding examples of some of the projects seen earlier in this blog in the beginning stages, now complete:

Rousseau inspired jungle landscapes

Matisse inspired window views

Nonobjective color studies

Davis inspired abstract compositions