{"id":787,"date":"2009-10-21T18:23:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T01:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2009-11-16T00:01:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T07:01:28","slug":"open-ended-art-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Open Ended Art: Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lettersnumbersandbooksohmy.blogspot.com\/\">Open Ended Art <\/a>project was simply &#8220;black and white&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Once again I wanted to go with the spirit of the challenge and provide only materials to him, without any specific project in mind, and without assisting or correcting in any way.\u00c2\u00a0 He is old enough that it works.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0When he was younger I think he would have been at a loss on his own like that.<\/p>\n<p>We started out upstairs in my office \/ the playroom and he was asking to &#8220;make a project&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 I said of course and hey, do you think we could make something cool if we only used black and white? and he said yes we can!\u00c2\u00a0 He started rummaging (my scrapbook stuff that isn&#8217;t packed up is all over the place), dug out some buttons and some patterned paper.\u00c2\u00a0 He asked for scissors and glue.\u00c2\u00a0 Then he went to work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bento-27-and-black-and-white-001.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-786\" title=\"bento 27 and black and white 001\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bento-27-and-black-and-white-001.JPG\" alt=\"bento 27 and black and white 001\" width=\"214\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bento-27-and-black-and-white-001.JPG 356w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bento-27-and-black-and-white-001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEE, this is the dipped in dye thing I was talking about when I was complaining about my camera the other day.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh Honey, if you are reading this, I need a new camera!\u00c2\u00a0 All the in progress shots ended up like that or worse.\u00c2\u00a0 At least one of the finished pictures came out!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bento-27-and-black-and-white-002.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-785\" title=\"bento 27 and black and white 002\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bento-27-and-black-and-white-002.JPG\" alt=\"bento 27 and black and white 002\" width=\"369\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bento-27-and-black-and-white-002.JPG 2848w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bento-27-and-black-and-white-002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bento-27-and-black-and-white-002-1024x770.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once he had everything glued down the way he wanted, we set it aside to dry, but he very earnestly informed me that it wasn&#8217;t finished and he needed to &#8220;draw in the lines&#8221; when the glue was dry.\u00c2\u00a0 He had a very clear vision, apparently!<\/p>\n<p>What is it?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a &#8220;jungle at night&#8221; of course.\u00c2\u00a0 He even spelled out &#8220;jungle&#8221; with scrapbooking stickers all on his own!<\/p>\n<p>I really have enjoyed these open ended art projects.\u00c2\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t tried one with your kids, I highly recommend it!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The schedule posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/lettersnumbersandbooksohmy.blogspot.com\/\">Mommies Wise Little Bookworms <\/a>looks like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oct 21-27: Black and White:Glitter, Chalk, Paint anything goes<\/li>\n<li>Oct 28-Nov 3: Pumpkins: Real, Collage anything goes<\/li>\n<li>Nov 4- 10: Henri Matisse Collage (more in this in a week or so)<\/li>\n<li>Nov11-17: Feather<\/li>\n<li>Nov 18-24: Corn<\/li>\n<li>Nov 25- Dec 1: NON Open Art: lets see those Turkeys!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for this week&#8217;s Open Ended Art project was simply &#8220;black and white&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Once again I wanted to go with the spirit of the challenge and provide only materials to him, without any specific project in mind, and without assisting or correcting in any way.\u00c2\u00a0 He is old enough that it works.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0When he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}