Me And My Shadow

Gan Daled learned about the great artist, Rembrandt, who lived in Holland. He is known for his use of light and shadows. Rembrandt painted many self portraits. The children used charcoal to make their own self portraits which resembled Rembrandt's etchings. Even though charcoal is difficult to work with, the children used their fine motor skills to produce beautiful self portraits in Rembrandt's style.

Gan Daled became print makers and discovered that it is possible to make many copies from a single master. They engraved pictures into a piece of foam to make a plate and covered it with paint. Next, the children put a piece of paper on the plate and pressed down carefully. When they lifted the paper off the plate they had a lovely print of their work. The class noticed that everything on the print was reversed.