Have any of you studied these during picture study?

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  • July 4, 2013 at 6:51 pm
    TailorMade
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    Linneaus

    Audubon

    Potter

    I’m planning for us to really focus on nature study this year. I’ve also decided to only focus on three artists ( 1/term )during picture study instead of the crazy number we attempted last year.

    I was considering Emily’s beautiful portfolios, and went through Discovering Great Artists to add hand’s on activities. That’s when Linneaus and Audubon jumped off the page. It occurred to me that we could tie our nature study and artist together to a certain extent if we studied artists who were famous for nature study. That’s when Miss Potter came to mind.

    Now, maybe I should rethink our composers list and focus on three whose compositions were based on nature…?

    If you’ve studied any of these three in terms of art versus science/nature study/literature, please post tips.

    If you have composer suggestions, that will be appreciated, too. I’m headed to my composers bookshelf. ;0)

    July 4, 2013 at 7:06 pm
    TailorMade
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    I’m sticking with my original plan for composers. It will work well. Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn.

    July 4, 2013 at 8:19 pm
    jmac17
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    Another excellent choice for a nature focused artist would be Robert Bateman.  We studied him last year, but didn’t do anything other than the typical look at the picture and narrate process.

    July 4, 2013 at 8:23 pm
    suzukimom
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    I was going to suggest Robert Bateman too – his nature pictures are stunning.  I swear you could do him all year, he has so many great pictures!

    We did Robert Bateman the first term that Delta was in “grade 1”.  he just finished “grade 4”.  His favourite artist so far?  Robert Bateman.

    July 4, 2013 at 8:56 pm
    cherylramirez
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    We did Audubon and it went over very well.  We will try Bateman next for my son’s sake!  We are starting Remington this month, he will like that!

    July 4, 2013 at 9:26 pm
    TailorMade
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    I’m putting Remington on standby. I think my done will like the pictures and sculpture.

    July 4, 2013 at 10:07 pm
    cherylramirez
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    FYI: My son really enjoyed Mendelssohn.  He was particularly interested in Midsummer’s Night Dream.

    July 5, 2013 at 1:30 am
    HaRae
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    Composer idea: I really like Ferde Grofe’s work, and think it would be a good study! He is most famous for the Grand Canyon Suite but has many other nature-inspired works.

    July 5, 2013 at 2:57 am
    Tecrz1
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    We do one artist per term (12 weeks) We did Audubon this year. I combined it with the Burgess Bird book, the bird notebooking pages from notebooking pages.com and also the Dover coloring book of Audubons birds. We coordinated the coloring pages we had to the burgess book. I also bought an old calendar with Audubon’s pictures which we hung in the dining room. We expanded our bird feeders, and basically went bird crazy. My kids love birds 🙂 We also read The Boy Who Drew Birds about his life. It was a wonderful living book and beautiful to look through!

    Tara

    July 5, 2013 at 3:06 pm
    Tanya
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    When we did Audubon, our library had an oversize version of his Birds of North America – so although not the original life size, it was big enough to be impressive.  You could check your library for something similar.  I think Audubon is one of my daughter’s favorite artists.  And I also give a vote for Tara’s suggestion for The Boy Who Drew Birds.

    There are some good books about Beatrix Potter too – there is one about her letters that is kind of interesting.  We didn’t read all the text, but there are pictures of her letters in the book so you can see how she drew her illustrations right into her correspondence.  Can’t think of the title right now…

    My younger daughter is reading a book about her right now called The Country Artist by David Collins.  Confession – I did not pre-read it, but she is enjoying it (she’s 8).

    Plus, just looking at the illustrations in her books is great.  There are several free printable coloring pages of her illustrations online – we printed one out onto watercolor paper and then painted it in.

    July 5, 2013 at 9:19 pm
    TailorMade
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    You ladies are awesome. Just keep planning it all out for me. Teehee. 🙂

    Hugs!

    July 5, 2013 at 9:53 pm
    lnosborn
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    Tecrz1, that’s a great idea. I’m planning on doing Audubon and hadn’t thought of combining it with the Burgess bird book. I just ordered an old calendar too with his prints. Thanks for the idea!

    July 5, 2013 at 10:43 pm
    petitemom
    Participant

    totally saving this link!

    love the ideas!

    July 7, 2013 at 2:05 am
    TailorMade
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    The newest Sage Parnasus blog has a title to add to the Potter resources. It includes fascinating info. on Miss Mason, too.

    http://sageparnassus.blogspot.com/2013/07/charlotte-and-japanese-royalty.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SageParnassus+%28Sage+Parnassus%29

    Blessings,

    Becca<><

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