Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Yesterday's Beach Art



Submitted by Michael, Kira's Artistic Accomplice

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:


And then we let it go.....