Picture Study

More and more I'm being influenced by Charlotte Mason's method of home schooling. I've decided to incorporate several of her ideas into our day. Today we did a picture study of the, "Arena Chapel" by Giotto di Bondone. We read about the painting in "Master Pieces Up Close" by Claire d'Harcourt; then the kidlets drew what they remembered from the picture. It's a set of four pictures from the south wall of the chapel. I suggested they could study a portion of it to draw. After drawing they compared their picture to the original and I praised them for the detail they remembered.
BigH drew his picture from this image it’s interesting to see what they find eye catching. Here is his rendition of the picture. I find it interesting how he remembered the tiny bit of blue underneath the thatch of the roof.

LittleE drew from this image on the south wall. She remembered that Mary's robe had bits of blue showing through. We had chatted about that and if that was what the artist had painted originally or if had been from paint peeling off the picture because of age.

LittleE's drawing

“We cannot measure the influence that one artist or another has on the child’s sense of beauty, upon his power of seeing, as in a picture, the common sight of life..."~ Charlotte Mason