Kira's spirit soars when we do art together. Jeanne & I think it's a part of who Kira is, what she feels, and how she expresses. So... what a joy and gift it is for us to to have the time and circumstance to spontaneously create art together.
Our plan has been to include art as part of our home schooling
curriculum. Lots more fun than math and language arts, and less resistance too! Kira has been patiently awaiting our first art class, and after over 1 week recently began requesting (repetitively!!!) that we get it gong - as we had yet to cover that. Our first class, a still life pencil drawing assignment inside our bungalow, wasn't inventive enough to satisfy her hunger. So the next morning Kira and I awoke from our beach bungalow, walked onto the beach, and spontaneously started collecting and creating:
As we collected, we decided our theme would be to create MAJK art out of local materials, and that this would be the first in our Round the World series. We collected and used coral, sea shells, beach glass, and palm leaves. Adam and Jeanne joined us after the project was underway, so it was a full MAJK FAm effort, resulting in this:
Beautiful Kira and family! How lucky to have this opportunity to travel and learn with your family. Great to see the "Land Art" continued! For some really amazing beach art, I have two Marin Arts Council artists to share with you: Andres Amador at andresamador.net and the environmental art of Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang, who have collected plastic on Kehoe Beach for years and turned it into art with an environmental conservation message. They can be found at beachplastic.com I look forward to seeing more of your creations!
ReplyDelete-Colleen Proppé
Director of Membership
Marin Arts Council
www.marinarts.org
(Blake and Aidan's Mom! :)