Hey Blog! Art-y week this week.
I really like art. It’s inspiring, beautiful, and sometimes a little bit crazy. At the moment I am doing an online art course called the Nutcracker Art Experience, making art inspired by Tchaikovsky’s music for The Nutcracker. There are five days to the project, and so far I have done four of them: A Picasso-inspired Nutcracker collage, a Dali-inspired clock, a Beatrix Potter-inspired Mouse King, and a Degas-inspired Snowflake ballerina. My favourite is the clock, which is the big picture. The others are below. We also listened to some of the Nutcracker suite that Tchaikovsky wrote, and my favourite of the extracts I’ve listened to so far is the overture.
The pictures are all done in different media: the clock, pencil; the Mouse King, watercolour pencil; the Nutcracker collage, paper cut out; the ballerina, oil pastels and cut paper. There is one more work that is a pre-party project – a Van Gogh-inspired tree, done in paint, which is the other picture at the bottom.
As I have not finished the project, I will conclude it next week, with my final piece. Keep looking out for the next post on Home Ed In A Shed!
