Painting Exploration in Art Class

Hello Catbird Families,

Our Catbird artists have been very busy in the art studio this year. This week we began our first exploration of media, focusing on paint. We started out looking at different types of brushes, noticing their similarities and differences and using our observations to predict what kind of marks they would make.

Our Catbird artists then joyfully got to work, testing to see how many different types of marks they could make with their brushes. Some discoveries that were made along the way included new colors that were mixed, that when less water is used the color is darker and that if the brush is really dry you can make a smaller mark. We will be continuing to use different types of paint in our painting exploration!

-Amanda, Early Childhood & Lower School Art Teacher

Our GIANT Adventure

Our morning began with much building, writing, reading and journaling.

Light blocks were added to the material mix.

Music with Aedin, in the classroom.

Mike caught a mouse outside, and friends took turns looking at it before he let it go in the woods.

Heading out on our adventure.

Steering the wagon, loaded down with our supplies.

Our first rest stop.

Second stop, to climb some trees and collect some treasures.

Buddying up.

Instructions for crossing the street.

Into the woods.

Time to race down the big hill.

The playhouse.

Running up and racing down.

Keeping hydrated.

Reading on the stage.

Catching leaves as they fall.

Lunchtime!

Climbable art.

Climbable hill #2.

Climbable trees.

Treasures.

Ropes are handy on adventures.

Packing up.

Heading back.

Exploring a tree stump.