Last week our assignment was to sketch something from your trash can. My family raised their eyebrows at this assignment but then they did a really good job.Here is your slideshow: Trash Time
After my post the other day on art reproductions, I decided we would do a little art copywork for Sketch Tuesday. We have done some of these in the past and they have always turned out wonderfully.
(See art reproduction link above for links to the previous Sketch Tuesday assignments with art copywork.)I chose a painting by John Singer Sargent since he is the Ambleside Online artist for this term.
This week's assignment, due Monday, February 1st, 2010: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. Complete a picture study of the painting and make a reproduction.
Here is your painting.
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent-Wikimedia Commons
Here's one way you can complete this sketch assignment.
1. View the painting. You can view it on your computer screen or right click the image and print it out for your art journal. I prefer this link to view: LINK. (There is also the story of how the painting was made...interesting to me.)
2. Spend a few minutes quietly looking at the image.
3. Have your child tell you what they see in the painting. I always let my boys tell me what they see first without any prompting. If they seem to have trouble getting started, I ask them to give me a list of nouns....boys are very concrete. I know when they were younger they liked to tell me what the story was for the painting we were studying. There are no right or wrong answers.
4. Now have them sketch out the painting onto their paper. I always allow my boys to choose whether they want to try to sketch the complete painting or just an interesting part of it for their journal. In this painting, your child may choose to sketch just the flowers, one of the girls holding the lanterns, or perhaps just one side of the painting.
5. It is always optional to add color using their choice: watercolors, markers, crayons, oil pastels, or something else that you have on hand.
Previous Sketch Tuesdays with Art Copywork:
Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest
Monet's Garden
After you make your sketches, send them in to sketchtuesday@yahoo.com. The deadline for this assignment is February 1st for the Tuesday morning slideshow.
If you have any questions, please email me: harmonyfinearts@yahoo.com
5 comments:
I loved the slide show ~ thank you for hosting this! *Ü*
Thanks Michelle,
I thought this was an especially good slideshow this week.
Thanks for sending in your children's sketches.
Barb
Barb, thanks for the assignment! I have been thinking of having the kids do some art copywork as part of our artist study this term. I especially appreciate how you laid out one way to do it.
Enjoyed the link with the description of how the painting was created over many months. I saw this several years ago. It really is just luminous and much larger than you would imagine.
Did you notice that you can see the light from the taper one girl has just used to light her lantern? I'd never noticed that before.
Sebastian,
I would love to see this in person. I am sure that the colors and illusions of light are so much better than any computer image or print could ever duplicate.
I am drawn to this painting for so many reasons.
Thanks for the comments.
Barb
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