Artists and Art Week 5 - Paul Klee Part 2

 As soon as Bear saw the cat painted by Paul Klee, she wanted to draw cats too.  I picked Paul Klee by chance because the book available at the library seemed accessible to Bear.  Sometimes the books are way over her head.  This one (Paul Klee: Art for Children) wasn't.  When we read that he painted and drew his cats a lot we went on line to see. We found this painting.

I remembered that I had a picture of this from an old calendar and went to search for it.  We then turned our pantry door into a Paul Klee exhibit.

We discussed the dreamlike quality of his Cat and Bird painting.  I decided we'd use chalk pastels to create that dream like quality in our drawings. I showed Bear the technique of rubbing the chalk.

I found my old "How to Draw Cats" book and Bear worked on drawing a pouncing cat (under the big cat face).  There's a little ball of yarn below him to the right.

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