©2007WickedPickleshomeschool
Do you know who posed for American Gothic? It wasn't a loving couple standing in front of their house. It was actually Grant Wood's sister and his dentist. Too funny! ©2007WickedPicklesHomeschool The art usually gets hung on the art wall. It has moved areas in the house many times. The art wall is where we hang the picklets handiwork. When family and friends visit they enjoy looking at the picklets creations. Hung up by the picklets paintings are pictures of the Grant Wood original, the name of the painting and the date of it. The picklets then wrote a little blurb telling what they liked best about the painting, the easiest part to paint and the hardest part to paint. They then signed their paintings and their write ups and we hung them up. The little sheets you see hanging above all the work say "Grant Wood", "(1891-1942)", "painter" and "artist". ©2007WickedPicklesHomeschool Grant Wood (1891-1942) Born and raised in Iowa. An artist who was a proud Iowan and showed the good side of simple living. Though living in different parts of the country and world he returned to his Iowa roots to work as an artist, both personally and professionally. For Chip I chose The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. It chose to be a difficult painting as there was so much detail at a distance and it was so dark. Chip was very upset that it didn't turn out the way he wanted it to, but it was a great effort. He is anxious to try another one soon. Spear does not like art much. He wants to be good at it so much and just can't get the art to turn out the way he wants. He is way more an abstract man. I picked January for him. Basically three colors and easy shapes. Half way through he decided he was done. I think it looks pretty good Sweet is so easy going. Half way through her painting she said, "I didn't know I was such a good artist." Gotta love that enthusiasim. She is trying and likes her rendition of Haying and that is what counts. |
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