We have viewed our map / to see what country our featured artist lived in.
As we view photographs of Beethoven's home and where he might have worked, we have a photographer in our teaching area.
It's always a plus when your having fun and learning.
The Arts has a way to engage the mind.
Here, we view the symphony center in chicago / where Beathovan's notes are still performed live.
We have never seen Beethoven / I wonder what he looks like.
Our minds are busy.
We are hard at work.
We share our space and our tools as we listen to Ludwig van Beethoven's music.
The arts has many special aspects to it and there is much to learn.
Our chidren respond to instruction within the arts.
Teaching in the arts can captivate.
We know that Beethoven became deaf, but can we understand the umber tones in music?
Did Beethoven know the music colour and it's vibrancy as he created a great deal of original combinations of notes?
We all have the capabilities of vigor, like in Beethoven's music.
We have internal tools.
The wide variety that the arts provides, helps us focus.
There are tools for our minds to keep inside the arts.
We learn to teach ourselves and even others.
It has been said that music helps us strengthen our mathematical abilities. Music, when written is drawing in music notes.
Drawing measured distance, sequence, or, equations like music notes, is something I call,"abstract math." It is found in visual arts as well as music.
It is nice to interact.
It's worth looking at more closely.
Beethoven had the freedom to create what was in his mind.
We are not reproducing Beethoven's work, we are creating from our minds and inpired by his mind.
We are next, and what will the world be like when we grow up.
There is much to learn.
There are great leaders in the artist that we learn of, and many world concepts to think about.
We all learn something and run in different directions with it.
Our pencils are a magic tool. With them, we can draw or write our idea's. We can express our minds more fully.
There was once a man who traveled across the world in the 1400's and saw a new animal. When he came home to tell of it, he lost his words, and took out his pencil to draw the creature. Who turned out to be, an elephant.
It's a nice day for a day of drawing.
Tracee and Company encourages time for free time (Free Draw) to draw any subject or to talk with friends about life while not in interactive lecture space. Many great things happen in Free Draw.
Great thinker's sometimes think very differently!
We use many fine art tools / mostly the best / however / it is our magic pencil that gets a workout every day.
In this class we have used our Free Draw markers, water colour crayons, magic pencils, and paper / we also used artist quality pastels, artist quality pastel pencils, and 100% cotton rag paper for our works of Beethoven.
We learn to use different styles in our own way, like pointillism, here.
We have learned story boarding in other classes.
We've learned to use thumb nail drawing to examine subjects closely.
We have learned to design our ideas over and over to understand how to create them better in our own minds.
Our idea's are not subject to anyones criticism.
We are free to express and create.
And think on our own.
Doodling is sometimes reactionay as we draw ideas out.
Every class is different and we are always faced with new tools, new concepts, and new challenges that engage us.
Who will be instructing us in the years to come.
We use a computer and other equipment as we use pencils and books. They are more tools to share. Not to sit at all day.
Parents are always welcome to sit and even join the activity in our class. And we have had many parents enjoy the class as much as our youth.
We learn a great deal about the world through the arts.
At Tracee and Company, we are free to move around in our lessons after our lecture.
Our students learn to care for our environment of learning and the world.
We make friends.
We have fun.
We become comfortable in our setting.
We take our lessons seriously.
This is a photograph of the courtyard at Beethovan's adult home. It depicts a beautiful garden and a tree.
At the end of our lessons we have the option of taking about our work as we stand tall atop of a platform.
Tracee and Company can not stress how important it is to relax when your learning.
Make a face, it will reduce anyones stress.
Even after two hour lessons, the focus never leaves us.
Our examples in our lecture for today, are Chicago's Symphony Center / an Abstract Painting by Miro / Music Notes taken from Beethoven's 9th Symphony / a photo out-side Beethoven's home / a world map / a globe / and music form Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
Wouldn't it be nice to have lessons under Beethoven's tree?
What would i have been like to write music there, at that time in the world?
Was the sun shining upon him while he was writing?
Did he hear colour? See colour? Feel Colour or vibration?
Did he use a magic pencil to write his music first, or did he play his music and then write it down?
Beethoven remebered many notes?
We all have brilliance.
We are all bright in our own areas.
We have many interests.
The world has much to offer.
Draw your Symphony.
Create in silence and use vibrations to understand movements and colour.
Get comfortable.
Go to work at it all.
Help clean up along the way.
Share our space, and be aware of others around us.
There is a vibrant blue here. Vibe is derived from Vibrant, meaning: moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating, vibrating so as to produce sound, as a string. (of sounds) characterized by perceptible vibration; resonant; resounding.
It look to me like a new Symphony was inpired on paper!
We never got a look at Beethoven's face, but decided to draw what we thought he might look like.
This is my portrait of him. I'm the instructor: Tracee Pickett
We learn alot from each other too.
Yet we are alway original.
There is not a wrong answer in creating (visual works) on paper.
were are in the later part of our second hour and still focused in.
We are gearing up for our healthy bit to eat soon. Every lesson includes tai-chi and healthy replenishing foods to eat.
I don't think Beethoven's music was more fun than this lesson.
All Unique.
The presentation and the works.
We promote listening to our speakers at this time.
It is an important moment to show your work.
You express your work of art and your perspective of the lesson.
It's your voice we listen to now.
And your beautiful work we focus on now.
vibrancy: vigorous; energetic; vital / exciting; stimulating; lively: vibrant colors; a vibrant performance. Life.
Our Life.
Our world of learning with the arts.
We learn to develope our idea's early.
We perfect them along the way.
And understand a whole new set of skills.
It is more than drawing pictures.
It's verbal communication, visual and audio exploration, and much more... It a world of tools we can not do without. Support the Arts everywhere!
