Hi. For those non-believers who think that two year olds cannot do seriously analytical work, check out what just came out of the Wednesday A.M. class. Look at the difference of aesthetic between these two students work. See what colors they are mixing from good old red yellow blue and sometimes white.
Stay tuned to continue to appraise the work of young children differently. Please note that all of this work came from the student through doing- they had fun!
Joan
Lara is into differing textures as well as color. Thick against thin. Jarring differences sometimes. What abstract expressionist adults like to call "push-pull", She also loves line. At least that is what she is tending towards at this moment....A very serious worker.
Dashiel is the youngest- just turned two. Loves to paint- and dance. A few of these were done while she was doing both. She would twirl around her desk and then make circles and dance marks on her paper. She gets very excited when she happens to make a secondary color- and can tell you just how she did it!
Want to see improved skills and confidence? Check out the last post for this class.
The Thursday older PM class is doing equally marvelous work- a post of them will come soon.
Here is a comment from a present parent of a child in the youngest class:
I had heard about Joan from parents of older children, who said things like, "In her class, every child's work looks different," and "this is class my children keep attending year after year." I very much like the focus on independence, each child learning to mix her own paints, look carefully at each color she mixes, consider what she would like to do or what she has done (masses or lines, curved lines or straight, patterns, variations in color), decide when she is finished, clean up her own materials. The class is punctuated by questions from Joan, and answers from the children; it's nice to hear the children's answers become more precise and confident through the semester. I have always liked my children to take classes from local artists, because it seems to me that artists who are absorbed in their own work, bring to their classes a sense of the importance and excitement of creative work, and very clear ideas about its process. This feels very much the case in Joan's studio. It is a delight to look into the class and see the children fully absorbed.
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