Wednesday 2 May 2012

Home Sweet Holmes Art Gallery

Over the past 10 months we've been looking at famous artists and have created our own art gallery.

We used the books Sister Wendy's 1000 masterpieces and Usbourne Art treasury.
Working with pencil, pen, ink, chalks, wax crayons, oil pastels, watercolours and poster paints we created our works of art.

Our works of art inspired by Van Gogh, Hokusai, Avercamp, Klee, Rousseau, Whistler, Kandinsky, Degas, O'keeffe, Pollock and Turner.

Huge poppies inspired by Georgia O'keefe, who took tiny flowers and created huge paintings. O'keeffe said 'Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time -and to see takes time... So I said to myself: I'll paint what I see -what the flower is to me- but I'll paint it big... I'll make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers'
Smokey, splattery firework pictures inspired by James Whistler and Van gogh's 'The starry night'.

Jungle scenes inspired by 'Monkeys in an orange grove' by Henri Rousseau and Squares with concentric circles by Kandinsky

Dancers in blue (after Degas)

Inspired by Lavender Mist by Jackson Pollock. I was amazed as to how tricky it is to produce a splattery picture. It's SO difficult. I definitely now have more respect for abstract artists.

Thanks for visiting our art gallery, please sign our visitor book, via the comments box...

14 comments:

  1. I really like your art gallery, as I have seen it in person too I can vouch for how fab it looks! I love the Lavender Mist by Pollock too x

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  2. What a great idea!!! And we have the Art Treasury Book just sitting here doing nothing. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  3. Thanks for the tour of your art gallery!

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  4. What a wonderful art gallery you have created!! Bravo!!

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  5. What a wonderful project! Your masterpieces are beautiful!

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  6. Ohh! I see the little Starry Nights, and the Matisse collages, and the Klee cirlces! And, the little Degas dancing ballerinas! what a wonderful collection of art you have. Isn't the art of children wonderful!

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  7. X-tra cool! I just love messing around with anything artsy!...and seeing other people's stuff too!

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  8. Oh I love art! These are truly wonderful! What a gorgeous gallery!

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  9. we have done so many of the same pieces over the years - always love the children's renditions, so free..

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  10. these turned out fantastically -- to be framed, I hope!

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  11. Wow. I'm impressed.

    How fun to play with all the various methods to see what you like to do!

    What an xcellent example of joy in art!

    thanks for sharing this post.

    A+

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  12. Oh my goodness, you have a whole GALLERY in your house. How wonderful and amazing. The books look great too. Will check them out.

    Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Arty :-) Hope to see you again in Nov for the next Get Arty linky

    Maggy

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  13. Wow! You have been so busy. So many wonderful pieces of art. Love the art books you chose too. Fantastic.

    Thank you for joining in with Kids Get Arty!

    Maggy

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