As promised from the last post, here are the pictures of the painted piece we created for my daughter's school art auction. The piece started out as an unfinished furniture piece, a blank canvas so to speak. After I sanded and base coated the piece the kids went to town. They all each created what kind of flower they wanted to be that was inspired by the book "Mrs. Spitzer's Garden" (for more details about the book see below) and they all selected what colors they wanted their flower to be.
They learned how to create clouds with their fingers (the best way to get a realistic looking cloud and it also embraces your finger painting genius!) They got the chance to paint two of their flowers on the piece, one was on top, and then six flowers were on each side.
For those wondering, the two women on the piece, those are my daughter's teachers. And since they so lovingly educate our children they deserved to be on the piece too!
The piece really was child driven, I came in and painted in the fine details like the faces, the teachers, the butterfly bodies and wing outlines to complete the piece.
Here's hoping the piece raises a lot of money for my daughter's school! I'll let you know what the
piece eventually ends up going for when the auction takes place on March 26th. It was an honor and a great deal of fun working on this piece with the whole class.
1 comment:
Your piece is so beautiful! I just discovered this book and googled it to find ideas using the book as a theme for an end of year luncheon for our teachers. I just love this beautiful piece you created for your daughter's class. I hope you raised lots of $!
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