Thursday, October 16, 2014

Art 10/14/2014, Trailblazers and Explorers


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.