Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Rembrandt Anyone?

We are studying the works of Rembrandt this term and so after looking at "Aristotle with a bust of Homer" and his self-portraits I introduced them to "The Nightwatch":



I tried to teach them about depth and light using this painting. I'm not sure that they grasped the whole 2 dimensional/ 3 dimensional concept being that paper is only 2 dimensional yadda yadda yadda but in the end I love their approach (we used water colors).

Here's Camerons attempt:


And here's Aidans:


I love teaching these guys!

2 comments:

Mitzi said...

Seriously, I don't know how you do it! Home school is not something I ever want to attempt. But maybe your son's aren't quite as stubborn as my son. People say he does whatever they ask him to when I am not around. But MAN he is stubborn with me! Today, I told him he needed to give Tara a hug. She walked right over to him and put her arms around him. What did he do? He looked at me and put his arms behind his back! GRRR!

The Shane's said...

you home school!? i did not know that! there were lots of people who home schooled in our ward in antelope. this one lady had 6. she is amazing! i love to find out what motivates people to home school and how they decide what to teach? enlighten me!?