“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: The þing
*þing is pronounced “thing. Yes, I could just write “thing,” but where’s the fun in that? This year, we’ve moved away from the “Fine Arts Friday” model to a “Morning Time” model. I’ll post some resources to find out more about the concept at the end of the post, but basically we spend about an hour […]
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Fine Arts Friday: There’s Nothing Like the Sun
There’s nothing like the sun as the year dies; Kind as it can be, this world being made so, To stones and men and beasts and birds and flies – To all things that it touches except snow, Whether on mountain side or street or town. The south wall warms me: November has begun, Yet […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
There’s just something fun about that name. Interestingly, with those three names to choose from, he went with Camille. That wouldn’t have been my choice, but he’s the famous artist, so what do I know? The aforementioned Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is the artist in the Ambleside rotation this term. He was a French painter who lived a […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Tony Danza*
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is the artist for the third term on the Ambleside rotation. Most people are familiar with Degas’s paintings and sculptures, especially of dancers. His sculpture “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” has an interesting story. From the National Gallery of Art website: The sculpture was not so warmly received when she first appeared. The […]
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Fine Arts Friday: picture book art
*This post contains affiliated links. Moreso than usual. For most of us, our first introduction to any type of art was in children’s books. From Beatrix Potter’s English countryside to Tomie DePaola’s legends, illustrations help print stories on our hearts. They may not be the work of masters hanging in the Louvre, but the impact […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Recovering things lost
Have you ever gone to the grocery store for milk and eggs and come home with a dozen bags, none of which contain milk and your eggs are crushed? Maybe those bags are full of good, useful, needed things, but you still have no milk and cracked eggs. This year we have added a great […]
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Fine Arts Friday: the substitution of art
My mother keeps sending me pictures of her beautiful snowfall–from the desert.* Meanwhile, we have just had twenty-four hours of cold rain, and no snow for the entire winter. In fact, we’ve had very few days cold enough to snow should precipitation occur. I want a snow day! But where reality fails, art prevails. I’ll […]
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Fine Arts Friday: music and such
This term, Ambleside has a really fun collection of music for children this term. You should check out their site for all the selections. But it made me think of a very fun CD and book my sister got for Little Miss for Christmas, The Composer is Dead by Lemony Snicket. We listened to it […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Having an Epiphany
Feast, that is. January 6 is the Feast of the Epiphany, the celebration of the visit of the Magi to the baby Jesus. Or more likely toddler Jesus, who must have been thrilled with Frankincense. We normally try to have some sort of feast with friends, but we’ve been having trouble with lift-off the past […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Edible Christmas Art!
After postponing two times (once for life kicking our butts, the second because of flu, which is basically the same thing), we finally got together with our friends for a Christmas Baking Extravaganza! Instead of the traditional icing everywhere, frustrating the kids and the mom when Santa doesn’t look right, we opted for the much […]
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