So, for Friday's throughout the summer, my sisters and I are doing an art day. We each come up with our own ideas of what we want to do. Today I wanted to focus on one of my favorites,
Jim Dine. No suprise, it was his birthday this week, and I'm a sucker for celebrating other people's birthdays, regardless of if they are living or not. (He's still alive). And I believe I said I was retiring the sugar cookie as a teaching method, but the sugar cookie was bored in retirement, and was dying to get back in the game.
Jim Dine painted metaphorical self-portraits with these robes. I really took the idea in college because I'd rather paint people's "stuff" than them because their "stuff" says so much more about them.
I tried explaining the concept to the kids. They painted their own self-portraits that were, uh.. not of themselves..physically anyway.
the next two activities are the work of my sister. so great.
I've been wanting to have a paint fight ever since Jackson Pollock day last year. Each dishsoap bottle has about 4 oz of washable crayola tempera paint, and 2 cups of water. Shake well, and start making artwork on your cousins. The kids couldn't believe I was letting them do this at first. But once they knew I was serious....some serious fun ensued.
