Nudity in art (and elsewhere)… teaching art appreciation to students, and related random ramblings: To some people, this is a no-brainer and only neanderthols and tightly repressed puritans take issue with it. To others, this is a no-brainer, and no Christian ever lets their children see nudity in art and anybody who thinks otherwise just […]
Probably due to the hardships of his early life, Lord Kenyon was known for his frugality, or parsimony, among his acquaintances. When he died at the age of 70, there were some who said he had died of indigestion from the habit of eating leftover pie crusts for breakfast to save the expense of muffins. […]
You could get very fancy and make the notebook itself. I used a small composition book (they were four for a dollar or something), and for this one, I cut apart a small picture book that had mostly already been destroyed by a stream of toddlers who colored in it, tore a page or two, […]
From my archives- I wrote this over 15 years ago. Closer to 20 years ago, in fact. We approach art from two different paths, art history and art appreciation. When we do art history (something I did with older students, not grade schoolers), we look for artists representative of that time in history (as well […]
I have always found the notion of Jack Frost enchanting. I don’t know why. I just do. Poems of Home: II. For Children The Frost Hannah Flagg Gould (1789–1865) THE FROST looked forth, one still, clear night, And he said, “Now I shall be out of sight; So through the valley and over the height […]
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