Our Young Artists Club recently studied Leonardo DaVinci!  As he’s the definition of a Renaissance Man, our club members had tons of activities to explore his works and techniques.  Here are just some of them!

1. Supper Time!  Depict a supper with friends.  Tell us about your guests from their clothing, gestures, and expressions.

2. Invent This!  Depict an invention that solves a problem or creates a possibility.  Describe your invention in mirror writing.

3. Smile!  Create a Mona-Lisa styled portrait of someone you know.  Include a related background.

4. Drawing Takes Muscle: Draw your hands, your foot, or your knee.  Notice the underlying muscles.  Draw what you see, now what you expect.  (We also had an anatomy book they could reference for this!)

Besides these, there were stations set up with clay (DaVinci was a sculptor, after all!) and charcoal, to really get a glimpse at the modeling and sketching, preparatory parts of these artworks.  AND we played around with this website, that will take a phrase and turn it into DaVinci’s distinctive mirror writing style!

Here’s some of our club members in action!

A full day of DaVinci!