Tell me about Picture Study...

[butterfly113]

I am planning on doing CM style Picture Studies next year of various famous artists. We will be doing a world history overview, so I thought it would be nice to tie in artists as we go through the centuries.
If you have done Picture Studies... Please tell me about it. Tell me how it looks in your school. Do you have picture cards? DO you get books of different artists??? What is Picture Study like at you house? Looking forward to what the hive has to say!

[AuntPol]

The way I do picture studies is I find pictures by the artist we are studying on the web and use them as background on our computer. This way we are looking at it several times a day. Then I have the children narrate that picture to me at some point in the week. We also read from Hillyer's Child's History of Art book (it's in google books) about that artist.

[A home for their hearts]

We also read from Hillyer's Child's History of Art book (it's in google books) about that artist.

Are you able to read this book in google books or just see a preview? When I searched for it I could only see a preview.

[OhElizabeth]

We're finally doing picture study this year. I took the artists from Discovering Great American Artists, googled them or searched the National Gallery of Art website, right-clicked to save the pics, then sent them to walgreens to print as 4X6 pics. I hand her one, we discuss, then she puts it into a photo album and writes the title, artist, and his dates (birth-death). We do a couple a week, more or less, and then do the project from DGAA. You can do the exact same thing using Discovering Great Artists, which covers world history. It's fun, totally easy to implement.

[Wendy in ME]

What I have done is to sign up for the ambleside picture study yahoo group. I then printed of the pictures for the artist that we are studying onto 8x10 photo paper then put them into page protectors. I have a binder that I keep them all in. I think this is fairly expensive for ink and paper but I figure that eventually I will have a great binder of art prints to study. I also add a brief bio of the artist that I find online and read this to the boys when we start a new artist. I post one of the pictures on a cork board in our school room for the week after we study it on Monday. As far as the actual study goes, for us it is just a brief, informal discussion of the painting. I actually typed up some questions that I ask the boys just to get things started. I also keep this in our artist binder. Some of these are: what does it remind you of, what do you think of it, do you like it and questions about the setting such as time, season, weather, part of the world. I also share some of my own thoughts and memories to initiate the discussion.

[AuntPol]

Are you able to read this book in google books or just see a preview? When I searched for it I could only see a preview.


Oops sorry -one of the other sites. I have so many sites I look at that I forget where things come from now. Here is the link:
Child's History of Art (http://www.archive.org/stream/childshistoryofa009354mbp)

[MamaT]

We use Artext Prints. We narrate, read a bio of the artist from the web, and usually read either The Annotated Mona Lisa or The Story of Painting from the time period. We also put the artist on our timeline. Sometimes we watch The Story of Painting videos.

We also do an art project if we can find one relevant. I use this site:

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/lessons.html

[Macrina]

I have a blog post or two about how we do it here.....here (http://runofthemillfamily.blogspot.com/2008/09/art.html) and here (http://runofthemillfamily.blogspot.com/2009/02/learning-about-renoir.html)