Friday, October 10, 2008
Riley’s got a great art teacher. Frankly, I was shocked (but thrilled) that an elementary school even had a dedicated art teacher. Fortunately her art class coincides perfectly with my Friday afternoon off from work, so I get to help out. It’s great because it gives me a greater understanding for Riley’s stories about her classmates, and I am endlessly impressed with her art teacher’s creativity in coming up with new art projects (Jackson Pollack’s “Action Painting” for second graders) and her sheer gutsiness in tackling messy projects (Jackson Pollack’s “Action Painting” for second graders).
At first I wasn’t sure how she was going to approach cubism for Riley’s kindergarten class, and then I was somewhat apprehensive when she mentioned they were going to be painting cubist shapes (rectangles, squares, triangles... and if you’re a 5 year old girl, pink hearts) on their faces. But sure enough, mirrors were distributed to each and every kindergartener along with a q-tip (they only got one) and a small dollop of paint (my job was distributing dollops, I kept a bottle of pink in one hand and then whatever other color was being requested in the other. Although I kept trying to put the pink bottle down, I no sooner did than it was requested by yet another kindergartener. One little girl requested no other color but pink, and spent the entire half hour painstaking covering every square inch of her face with pink hearts.).
I was quite pleasantly surprised with the industriousness of the kids. Each one applied themselves diligently into creating their own masterpiece. Riley even tried to copy her planned drawing (see above picture, her face plan is sitting in front of her).
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