We learned a little
about and artist named Grant Wood. We read about his life and looked at some of
his paintings. He liked to paint ordinary people in his homeland of Iowa. His paintings
were generally cheerful compared to the historical paintings that we looked at
last week. His most famous painting was "American Gothic", which was
the painting we've all seen of a farmer and a woman standing in front of a
house holding a pitchfork. We practiced drawing people using a diagram and
talking about proportion. Then we made a drawing of two people from the
shoulders up to cut and paste onto a photo of the actual house that was in the
actual painting.
Manchester, NH based fine arts program for homeschool students
