Day #141/175 Days Fine Arts Co-Op

Today my sister came to our house and we did our Fine Arts Co-Op together. Our focus today for music were the guitar and bugle for instruments and Debussy for a composer. In art we began instruction on how to draw portraits and learned about Winslow Homer.

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Music

• We read an article about the history of guitars. 
• Then we watched this video on YouTube.

• The boys constructed a guitar shape book and wrote three facts about guitars inside.
• We read an article about the history of bugles.
• Then we watched this video on YouTube. 
• After the boys dictated three facts that were written on the chalkboard, they created a mini-book
• Read from Story of the Orchestra about Claude Debussy
• Listened to some of Debussy's music on the Story of the Orchestra CD
• Read from the Young Composers book as well
• The boys created a notebook page about Debussy

Art

• Watched Lesson 11 in "God & the History of Art" about "American Artists"
• Began the "Portraits & Anatomy" section of "Beginning Drawing IV" with Barry Stebbing
• The boys drew:
• Charlie/Charlene Contrast
• Hot Dog Man
• Tin Man
• Rectangle Man
• "Sad"
• Read about Winslow Homer in Art in Story
• Watched this video on YouTube that showed some of Homer's work 
• Listed four things learned about Homer and created an Artist Biography Page
• Created a watercolor painting