Discover Art Project Parent: With your child, explore the connection between real objects and objects in pictures. Gather objects similar to those in the painting of Bouquet of Flowers on a Ledge by Ambrosius Bosschaert. Shells, flowers, leaves, and bugs might be found. Allow your child to touch and explore the objects. Name the objects and name the colors. Use any descriptive words that come to mind. Provide crayons and paper. When working with children who have not made art in the past, model making art by drawing beside them, each using your own paper and making your own pictures. Do not draw on the child’s picture, but allow it to be his own. You just explored some interesting objects. Artists draw and paint those things on paper. Making a picture is a way of keeping special things near us. Draw a picture of some of the things you explored or objects you saw in the painting of a bouquet of flowers. Use your crayons on paper.
The crayon is held in place by the thumb and two fingers. Pointer finger holds the top and the middle finger holds the side opposite the thumb. See page eighty-two for further instructions.
This art was made by a young artist. Do you like the colors?
Parent: Your child just looked at a work of art and discovered objects that are both beautiful and interesting. By looking at pictures, especially art, your child will find reasons to make his own. He will pick up new information from pictures, make connections to things he already knows and sees in his own world. He will become familiar with seeing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. Children love pictures of all kinds. Within their first or second year, they are able to connect real world objects to pictures of those objects and name them. Fine art, photographs, and illustrations offer a wide variety of visual information. A great book to look at is A Child’s Book of Art, Great Pictures First Words by Lucy Micklethwait.
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