It makes my heart glad to know that so many of you are using the art and music plans that I am offering each season now. I have enjoyed reading your entries and seeing your results. Van Gogh has been a great artist for so many of us this summer already.
With some prompting from readers and a quite a few inquiries, I have decided to again offer plans for art and music in the autumn. Simple plans will be available sometime mid to late August.
The artist for the autumn will be Edgar Degas and the composer will be Sergei Prokofiev. Yes, there will be a ballet focus of sorts but rest assured there will be plenty for the boys to be interested in as well. Remember that I have boys of my own that will be following the plans and they would shoot me if I only included ballet themed art. There will be horses and carriages and so on as well.
I look forward to introducing some of you to Prokofiev. This is probably one of my all time favorites pieces of music and I think it should be on everyone's play list...Romeo and Juliet's Dance of the Knights.
So those of you who are busy planning your autumn term and are looking forward to using my plans, I hope knowing who we will focus on will help you get ready. For now, our family is deep into our study of Vincent Van Gogh. We have learned a lot so far about how he used complementary colors and I noticed the boys are pointing them out now when we discuss his artwork. I love the casual way we can learn more about art just by observing the masters.
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
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Sounds great! I will have to try to include these fall plans in with our regular harmony fine arts plan!
We have been learning more about Van Gogh and really enjoying ourselves. I can't remember if I shared my first post about it with you:
http://canadianhomelearning.blogspot.com/2010/06/summer-art-appreciation-vincent-van.html
Thanks again for putting these together.
Sign me up! Two of my very favorites!
There was a comment that was lost somehow asking me if they should start with my Autumn Art and Music plans or something from HFA.
They are really two totally different plans. HFA is a weekly plan with three different options for art. The plans are flexible for each family to pick and choose how much they would like to do as far as art. The Autumn Art and Music plans are just one composer and one artist with prints to view and simple follow up activities.
It really depends on how much art, how deeply you want to study an artist and composer, how many outside resources you want to pull into your study, and so on.
Please feel free to email me about specifics anytime.
Barb
We will definitely participate and we are looking forward to it. Our Van Gogh study has been enjoyable and Handel is of course marvelous!
Do you have plans already available for a study on Georges Seurat?
Seurat was one of the spring artists in the Spring ebook.
Barb
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