Illo Friday: FAT
Fat can be sweet and beautiful -- like soft, chubby toddlers with tummies protuding over their diapers, or like my Sweet Petunia Pig here.
Kandinsky books to enjoy
Are you looking for some excellent additions to your 2016 reading list? Recently, I have shared with students in my abstract art class a children's book about Kandinsky. The first book, The Noisy Paint Box was written by Barb Rosenstock and illustrated by Mary Grandpre. The book deftly explains Kandinsky's gift of synaesthesia ; he could hear colors and see sounds. Readers young and old will enjoy the imaginative drawings in this book. Be sure to share this book with the budding artist in your life. The backdrop of the beginning of the book is architecture of society of Russian aristocracy. Kandinsky came from a well-to-do family. However, his family lost everything during the course of civil revolutions and the first World War. Despite his relative poverty, Kandinsky always dressed like a well-heeled gentleman as he painted for his classes at the Bauhaus School. His students described him as genteel and mannerly -- a...
what a cute pig!! I made a pig too!!
ReplyDeleteThis is BEAUTIFUL!! Love the collage style, and the pig is soooo CUTE!
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ReplyDeleteWow these are good well done!
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penelope
Your art work is terrific. I wish I had the ability to paint/draw but I don't. Except with words. LOL
ReplyDeletehahaha, ADORABLE!!!
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