Painting Assignment

For his painting class, Brandt learned about an artist named Andy Goldsworthy.  He's from the UK and does natural installation art, site-specific work using materials such as rocks, sticks, and leaves.  It is fun stuff.  After watching a video, Brandt was to choose one of two options for an activity this week.  He could either make a color wheel with objects found around the house, arrange them in a radial design, and upload a picture, or he could go out into his environment, find 20 objects and make an arrangement in a neat and intentional way, and upload a picture of that.  I watched the short video along with Brandt and then suggested that we do both assignments as neither was going to take a huge amount of time.  Brandt chose to do the outdoor arrangement, and I went out with him to do one, too.  I had him do the color wheel as well, which he did very reluctantly, even though it wasn't that big of a deal.  I wanted to make lots of color wheels using all sorts of things, but settled for just the one.  Well, and a pencil arrangement, too.  Here are our efforts.

Brandt and his art installation

My natural artwork

Blythe's quickie job

Our found object color wheel