Sept 1-8, 2017
Egyptian Art

Our next project in our tour of “Art Through the Ages” was Egyptian Art. We looked at the amazing pyramids built by the Ancient Egyptians and discussed the
artwork found inside.
We read about
the interesting way Egyptian artists
portrayed human figures with the head, hips and legs in profile, while the
chest faces front. We also looked
at some hieroglyphics and talked about
the discovery of the Rosetta stone.
After trying to recreate this impossible position ourselves, we set to work
drawing an Egyptian profile. Figures were outlined with Sharpie and painted with watercolor. I think the results are beautiful!
The K-2 grade class focused on drawing King Tut's mask and colored it with oil pastels.