Henri Rousseau and Tunnel Book

In October 2014, we learned about the artist Henri Rousseau.

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Here is a book to go with it 

(The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau),

but since my order had not arrived, 

we watched its book trailer on Youtube.

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We also talked about some of Rousseau's paintings,

mainly those with animals and jungle scenes.

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Here are two of them.

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The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897

The Dream, 1910

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You can also find many of his paintings here.

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For high resolution paintings that can be enlarged to see the detail,

click on the pictures in Wikipedia.

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During discussion, we talked about foreground, middle ground, and background.

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Also watched this video to understand the different layers.

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For hands-on project, we made tunnel books.

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Here is a good example of the structure of a tunnel book,

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I made some changes for mine, 

instead of having the closure coming out from the front,

I placed them coming out from the back.

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Here are some samples of the children's works.

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needle book

XP was taught to use my old sewing machine,

and she made me this beautiful needle book. With 3 different coloured leaves inside.
She also sewn this doll cloth, just for fun.

Usborne art books

I bought these 2 art books from MPH (not at the same time)

and found them good to use as spine books to teach art appreciation.

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Usborne Book of Art (red cover on the left)

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Usborne Children's Book of Art (yellow cover on the right)

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I am going to start with Children's Book of Art,

it introduces to 1 or 2 artists at a time,

as well as the styles or types of the paintings;

the words are big (beautiful font) and easily understood by children.

Rembrandt and Vermeer

Van Gogh and Gauguin

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Book of Art will be followed by then;

it goes by time, from ancient to recent.

church paintings

potraits for kings

World War I

Pop Art

buildings' model

XP "built" the Taj Mahal.

(we are doing INDIA for our geography unit)

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Other buildings.

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still life collage

XP did some still life sketchings these 2 months.

Here she transformed one of them into a collage.

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July & August's Arts

For July and August's art unit,

we did Chinese brush paintings

and later made a table lamp with the paintings.

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Above are some table lamps made by my art class students.

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And this, the bamboo lamp, is made by XP.

More pictures on the detail of her lamp at her art blog.

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