Paintings come alive

  • A proposal for the activity.

    There are quite many paintings connecting children, feathers and birds, for example in Google Art gallery.

    One of them is "A Girl Writing; the Pet Goldfinch" painted by Henriette Browne around 1870. You can see the direct link to the painting here.

     

    The project activity could be a trial to make a facsimile of the painting by living photograph (acting the scene and environment documented on photograph) or new painting (when a child paint one`s own version of the artwork).

    ther eis a nice posibility to use a tool that changes photographs into drawings, paintings, sketches:

    https://funny.pho.to/photo-sketch-drawing-effects/

    https://funny.pho.to/artistic-photo-effects/

    So we could even transform the photograph of the scene into drawing, which looks like this:

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    and more other options.;)

    Final product, based on individual work would be both gallery of our facsimiles and (why not?) a memory game with original and facsimile work to join...