Still Lifes "After Cezanne"

After learning about the life of French painter Paul Cezanne, the upper class group created a still life in his style using Neocolor II Aquarelle Artists' Crayons ("Neocolors" for short).

Neocolors are softer than colored pencils, denser than children's wax crayons, and extremely responsive to a wet brush. Wet and dry techniques can be combined in the same drawing. Because of their strong pigmentation, light colors cover dark colors and vice-versa.

I'm very pleased with the children's results. (Click image to enlarge)

 Hudson

 Wes

 Avery

“Today our sight is a little weary, burdened by the memory of a thousand images. And these museums, and the paintings in them! … And the exhibitions! … We no longer see nature; we see pictures over and over again. To see the works of God! That is what I am striving for."
          

     - PAUL CEZANNE 

Jules Borély, “Cézanne à Aix,” l’Art Vivant (Paris: 1926), quoted in Richard Kendall, ed., Cézanne by Himself (London: Macdonald Orbis, 1988)