My Little Artist

I am crazy impressed with Drew's preschool this year. They recently finished up a unit on art/artists and had a little art show.

Here are Drew's masterpieces...

This first picture was "copied flowers in a vase...just for fun!"



This picture was inspired by Georges Seurat who created a painting technique called pointillism. He used little tinny dots of paint instead of a long brush stroke. It took him as long as 2 years to complete some of his paintings. This is Drew's painting with "dots".



Here is Drew's Michelangelo painting. Michelangelo painted on ceilings and walls all over Italy. His paintings told stories and his sculptures looked like real people. Just as he painted the Sistine Chapel laying down on a ladder, Drew used oil pastels to draw and color while lying under a table. How fun it that! Drew's painting is titled, "Angel on a Cloud".





This is Drew's rendition of Henri Matisse. Matisse was too tired and sick to paint, so he used colored paper shapes to make collages. Drew was to make a colored paper collage to imitate either a "snail" or "polinesia" . I'm not sure what Drew "imitated", but I am also not sure what a polinesia is?!?



Here is Drew's self portrait...he did it with him sporting a faux hawk ;). The artist studied for this piece of work was Da Vinci since he did portraits depicting facial expressions - the most famous being the Mona Lisa.



Van Gogh liked to use bright colors to paint pictures of things outside, especially skies and sunflowers. He used a lot of paint. This is Drew's version of "Starry Night".



Finally this is Drew's Pablo Picasso picture. Picasso was a famous artist who liked abstract art and bright colors. He turned things around in his mind and painted them in different ways. When Drew's showed me this picture at the art show, he paused at one point and told me it was upside down. We immediately let his teacher know who corrected the problem by flipping it the other way. Drew's portrait is titled, "Upside Down Airplane"...you can see how this might be confusing ;)


There are so many things I have loved about Drew's preschool teachers and units studied this year, but this one, by far, is my favorite! ...I even learned a thing or two :)