Friday, April 24, 2009

Vibrant Orange


tiger lilies dance with passion
pods of pollen
like chocolate treats
sway above the sea of orange
calling all bees


I brought in 6 pots of these exotic flowers to school yesterday - 100 students painted them. Close-up, broad strokes, mixing their own colors and adding whatever background struck their fancy. Imagine a whole wall...

Tiger Lily - Morgan Gilbert (5th Grade)

Oh, how I love orange!
Posted by Beverly Ash Gilbert at 9:52 AM

11 comments:

  1. GenieApril 24, 2009 at 10:36 AM

    Hi Beverly. lovely photos.
    have a great weekend

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  2. arleeApril 24, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    Orange rocks---and goes with EVERYTHING :}

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  3. DagmarApril 24, 2009 at 10:56 PM

    Hey Morgan, what a great painting. Love it. I'll bet you remembered my hair when you were working on it?
    Have a wonderful weekend. Hugs from me.

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  4. kendaleeApril 25, 2009 at 12:17 AM

    Orange makes my heart sing!!! And orange lilies doubly so. It tends to be one of those colours that people react strongly to one way or another. I wonder why?

    What a fabulous subject for a class painting project Beverly - and what a gorgeous interpretation by Morgan. Clearly creative genes are strong ones! Who could not be uplifted when looking at a wall of these?

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  5. lulu moonwood murakamiApril 25, 2009 at 11:14 AM

    Everything here is so beautiful. I can see what an amazing teacher you must be, and I would love to take one of your classes! I was looking through the kid art on your website, too - my class is just about to do the symmetry unit in math, so I will definitely try out the name symmetry project! I'm so happy to reconnect with you here!
    another big hug,
    lulu

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  6. SandyApril 25, 2009 at 3:14 PM

    I like lilies. Morgan did a good job-much better than I could.

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  7. Adrienne WoodApril 26, 2009 at 1:26 AM

    Fabulous photo and project. I bet the children had great fun painting them. We may glimpse beauty as we rush through our daily lives but it's only through trying to capture it on film or by drawing or painting it that I actually stop and look properly.

    I can see from the background that you were teaching about complementary colours, too!

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  8. lisaApril 26, 2009 at 2:36 AM

    tiger lilies are amazing! as is the talent of that little artist.

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  9. UnknownApril 26, 2009 at 8:52 AM

    pods of pollen! wow. i love that phrase.

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  10. SheilaApril 27, 2009 at 6:32 AM

    What a wonderful post, photograph, and project with the children!

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  11. Deborah Younglao, Silk PainterApril 28, 2009 at 6:15 PM

    MMMMM.... your bead soups look most delicious!

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