A walk outside was all it took for us to collect wood chips fallen
from a branch that was cut off a tree. We were not sure of what to do with them
but who could resist such interesting shapes and texture? Now that we are doing
an art unit and talking about art and art mediums all it took was for one of
the students to browse our box of artwork photographs and make a connection between
our wooden chips and the work of Karel Appel entitled “Questioning Children”.
Appel’s artwork is an oil on wood relief with many faces
painted on it in a very simple style. So we decided to paint
faces in his style.
First each student chose a base color; they painted the whole piece of wood in one
color.
Today the paint was dry so the children painted details on
the face.
They are displayed in the classroom and if later the students decide to add
something else I am going to say, “Why not?”
Here are our adorable wooden faces. Can you tell what they are feeling or thinking?
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