This is a very short week, and I'm sure we're all excited for Fall Break and an extended weekend. Because this is such a short week, and I only had one day with each class I decided to do a one day project.
Each month I will try to focus on a specific artist whether we focus on their technique, their style, or a specific painting or artwork. This week we did the artist for the month of October. We studied Edvard Much and his painting "The Scream". The students got to learn a little about Edvard Much and what drew him to drawing and painting when he was younger. (Ask your child and they should be able to tell you specifically that he was sick and so spent much of his time in his room and so started drawing what he could see in him home or just through his window. They may even be able to give you a few other details about his life.) We also talked about what drew him to paint "The Scream" and read his diary entry from the day that it was painted and how he felt that nature itself was screaming.
Since it is October and Halloween is this month I thought that the scream was a great fun project. I found a fantastic handout that referenced the painting "The Scream". It simply had the primary character and left out the background. The students were then able to create their own background that was being screamed about. It was fun to watch the creativity of the students as they came up with such a variety of backgrounds include traditional Halloween themes of haunted houses, to math tests, clowns, and various animals or people chasing or scaring them.
This was a quick, fun, one day project just right to send them off on Fall Break.
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