Students furthered their observation skills by painting place mats for Region 6's elementary schools annual Harvest Luncheons. Flowers, herbs, and vegetables from the school gardens were arranged as a still life. Students not only created observation studies, they practiced setting the table: the place mat (12" x 18" white paper, the napkin (a paper towel, folded and set at the left), a small paint brush (the salad fork, set at the left), a bigger paint brush (the luncheon/dinner fork, set at the left), and a pencil (the knife, set at the right).
Students studied artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a 16th Century Italian Painter, best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, and books. He painted representations of these objects on canvas in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject. Students practiced observing anddescribing what they noticed in Giuseppe's works, especially Vegetables in a Bowl or the Gardner. Students furthered their observation skills by painting place mats for Region 6's elementary schools annual Harvest Luncheons. Flowers, herbs, and vegetables from the school gardens were arranged as a still life. Students not only created observation studies, they practiced setting the table: the place mat (12" x 18" white paper, the napkin (a paper towel, folded and set at the left), a small paint brush (the salad fork, set at the left), a bigger paint brush (the luncheon/dinner fork, set at the left), and a pencil (the knife, set at the right).
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AuthorI am an art teacher and for Region 6 Elementary Schools: Warren, Morris, and Goshen, CT. I also teach a sixth grade class at the Wamogo Middle School Art Without Borders. Archives
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