In January, the students of KD, K/1G, and some in 1/2 Y and 2O will be bringing home their sketchbooks, The packets they come home in will be decorated with splatter paint, Jackson Pollack style. We will use watercolors. Both can stay home.
Many entries in the sketchbooks consist of arrangements of little, yellow postits where classmates' work was sketched during Museum Shares.
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ReplyDeleteSketchbooks are also in the portfolios. These for the most part contain a year’s worth of ideas and efforts of expressing oneself visually. They are rough drafts, sometimes in the early years, they are really rough by adult standards. Choosing an image and putting it on paper is a slowly developing skill and it takes practice, and patience, to represent a 3-d object in a 2-d medium. I encourage students to express their own ideas, and I offer tips to work toward a successful outcome individually. There are times when pulling an idea out of one’s head to sketch is the challenge. Suggestions or models are provided. Visual art is about the process at this stage and it is also about practice.
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