Children have their own eyes. They each see what is around them in their own way. Given materials, opportunity and encouragement they can produce images which capture their own unique experience of what they see. They have the potential to be artists, at the time they are children and not merely at some time in their futures. We should delight in their art.
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Monday, 28 February 2022
Sunflowers
We looked at and talked about some of Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ paintings. Then the children drew their own sunflowers from direct observation of artificial sunflowers in some of the school’s vases.
(For anyone interested, notes on the teaching approaches that helped children towards these outcomes are on the COMMENTARY PAGES of this blog.)
