Art

Each Wednesday, our children are involved in homeschool group classes called iFamily (http://ifamilyidaho.weebly.com/) Jace, Courtney, Spencer, Mallory, and Zach are taking classes - debate, guitar, knitting, sewing, a math enrichment class, art, Knights of Freedom (a boy's class where they study great men and adventurers), drama (improv), unit studies, and choir.  The classes are taught by homeschool Moms, and they are fabulous.

 Two weeks ago Zach and Mallory's unit studies class went to the Art Museum in Idaho Falls.  We saw art exhibits and then the kids did an art project - a self-portrait.  They learned about guidelines for drawing faces. 

Zach studying his face.  Cute!

Here's his first draft of his self-portrait.

He got to use paint in a spray bottle

Here is a piece from one of the art exhibits.  Pretty time consuming, each of the little marks is a brush stroke.

This was a neat piece by a lady who took a lot of closeup pictures of old things in junkyards. This is a picture of rust, then she painted on an eye, etc. to make it look like a horse.  You can read about it below.

 Mallory didn't go to the art museum because she was finishing up her sewing class.  She usually comes in the unit studies class after sewing ends, so she doesn't come on the field trips with us.

Back at iFamily classes, Spencer and Courtney were doing their art class.  It is a fabulous class taught by Keri King where they are learning art techniques with charcoal, acrylic paints, watercolor, etc.  They love it!

Spencer next to his friend, Seth

Eve, Courtney, Keziah, Arianna, Hannah