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Irises

Today I wanted to build on what the children had seen at the gallery and talk with them about artists and how everyone sees things differently. I used a book called No One Saw: Ordinary Things Through the Eyes of an Artist by Bob Raezka.

I began by reading them the story. I then showed them copies of two paintings, the first was Black Iris by Georgia O'Keefe and the second was Iris by Van Gogh. I asked the children if the two paintings looked the same and had them describe how they were different (one is extremely close up and the other is of a large bunch of different irises growing outside), how the artist might have painted them, looked at the flowers, etc. We then looked at a bunch of irises that Pam had brought in from her garden. I encouraged the children to look at the flower and paint or draw what they saw. This week, beacuse of their responses to pastels at the gallery, I decided to provide the childrenwith a choice between watercolour and pastel (chalk and oil) or all three if they wanted. Once again, I encouraged the children to think about what they wanted to paint before they began.

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