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| Wipe Out Cancer Angel Art |
We were fortunate to have three of DonnaBellas Angels art pieces donated to our classroom to use this past week as part of our biweekly parent docent lead art lesson program offered in my daughter’s 2nd/3rd grade class. DonnaBellas Angels kindly let us borrow the "Hope Inspirational Angel Word", "My Life, My Choice Diabetes Butterfly", and the "Wipe Out Cancer Angel" paintings.
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| Hope Inspirational Angel Word Art |
We talked about our experiences in going to the
doctor and what the hospital rooms typically looked like. I shared with the children the powerful way
in which DonnaBellas Angels' art is used at cancer treatment clinics around the
country. The children all agreed that if
they were in a hospital room they would enjoy looking at DonnaBellas Angels’ artwork
and it would bring much needed comfort.
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| My Life, My Choice Diabetes Butterfly |
We were able to look at the original DonnaBellas Angels works of
art in comparison to looking at them as a printed image on the computer or on a
postcard. Being able to see (and even
FEEL*) the stroke of the paint brush, the purposeful placement of the color sparkle
around the painting and the size of the art made such a larger impact than what
we could ever get from seeing a DonnaBellas Angels art print.
(*Thank you for your permission to touch the "Wipe Out Cancer Angel" artwork).
We focused on DonnaBellas Angels' Meditation Words series and
used the image of "Trust" and "Laugh" to have a discussion about concepts such as:
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| Trust Word Art |
- Using Art in Therapy
- Color Palette and placement (use of contrasting colors to highlight words, white glass sparkle placed on white outline of angel wings)
- Lettering (sanscript vs. script; ALL CAPS vs. lower case; Block lettering)
- Symbols (repetition; overlapping; outlining)
- Abstract vs. representational (hearts surrounding word Laugh vs. more free form strokes around TRUST)
- What words inspire you?
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| Laugh Word Art |
We then created our own inspiration word art
using colored markers and oil pastels and used our discussion to help guide in
making our own original art.
Thank you to DonnaBellas Angels for letting us be surrounded
by your art.
Your art truly uplifted us
and inspired us to create our own masterpieces.
Here is our “Wall of Inspiration” that is our gift and our Thank You to
you.
- Denise, Classroom Parent Art Docent
- Denise, Classroom Parent Art Docent
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| Wall of Inspiration - Children's Art of Inspirational Words |
Thank you for viewing DonnaBellas Angels art! Donations are always welcome and appreciated.
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