Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
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Monday, October 6, 2014
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Luncheon
Thank you to all who attended and helped with set up and clean up of our first ever Mid-Autumn Moon Festival lunch at Fayston School! Thank you to Cheryl for a delicious meal!
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Fayston School celebrates
The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Monday, October 6th, 2014
Join us to give thanks, honor the full moon and celebrate the harvest with a special picnic lunch shared with friends and family.
Adult lunch $3.75
R.S.V.P. to cjoslin@wwsu.org
11:30 grades K-3 / 12:00 grades 4-6
The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is a Harvest and Thanksgiving Festival celebrated in China, Vietnam, Taiwan and other Asian countries. It takes place during the full moon in September or October.
During this festival, people gather with their families and friends, offer thanks for the harvest or other good fortune and send their wishes and prayers to the moon. Other traditions include an outdoor nighttime picnic, with special treats called Mooncakes, and other traditional foods. At the gathering, people display colorful lanterns to light up the night.
At the Fayston School, we will celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival on Monday, October 6. Students will read Thanking the Moon, by Maya Lin, to learn about the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival and prepare for this event.
MENU
Potstickers with Stir-Fried Vegetables
Mooncakes
Sesame Noodles
Fortune cookies
Pears and Grapefruit
Tea
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Monday, March 25, 2013
Wayne Thiebaud Cakes
In celebration of our school's 50th Birthday, first and second grade artists learned about Wayne Thiebaud. He was famous for painting pictures of cakes and other sweet treats. We tried to capture the halo effect that Thiebaud called "halination" by outlining with oil pastels before AND after painting with lightened tempera paints.
The Life of Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud was born in Mesa, Arizona, in 1920. His father worked, among other things, as a mechanic, an inventor, a rancher, and a milkman. When Thiebaud was six months old his family moved to California where he spent a lot of time on his grandfather’s farm. His first art projects were with his mother on rainy days and with his uncle who was a cartoonist.
For many years Thiebaud did odd jobs like sign painting, cartooning, and illustrating movie posters. One summer he even worked in the animation department of Walt Disney studios. He was almost thirty years old before he realized that he could make a career of painting. When he returned to college to learn about art, he was offered a teaching job and spent many years teaching art in California universities.
At forty years old, he began his series of still-life paintings of food. Drawing with color and correcting his drawings with darker color led to a halo effect around his objects. This outline of pure, intense colors has become known as halation and adds to the vibrancy of Thiebaud’s paintings. He uses bright colors, thick rapid brush strokes, and simplified shapes to paint common, everyday food. Filling his canvas with a single cafeteria-style cake or pie elevates it to an absurd status that is part of his humor. At times he repeats the desserts over and over again, giving the impression that there is no end to these sweet things.
Some biographical information about Wayne Thiebaud from a great art blog, Art For Small Hands.
Wayne Thiebaud was born in Mesa, Arizona, in 1920. His father worked, among other things, as a mechanic, an inventor, a rancher, and a milkman. When Thiebaud was six months old his family moved to California where he spent a lot of time on his grandfather’s farm. His first art projects were with his mother on rainy days and with his uncle who was a cartoonist.
For many years Thiebaud did odd jobs like sign painting, cartooning, and illustrating movie posters. One summer he even worked in the animation department of Walt Disney studios. He was almost thirty years old before he realized that he could make a career of painting. When he returned to college to learn about art, he was offered a teaching job and spent many years teaching art in California universities.
At forty years old, he began his series of still-life paintings of food. Drawing with color and correcting his drawings with darker color led to a halo effect around his objects. This outline of pure, intense colors has become known as halation and adds to the vibrancy of Thiebaud’s paintings. He uses bright colors, thick rapid brush strokes, and simplified shapes to paint common, everyday food. Filling his canvas with a single cafeteria-style cake or pie elevates it to an absurd status that is part of his humor. At times he repeats the desserts over and over again, giving the impression that there is no end to these sweet things.
When painting a cake, Thiebaud says that he is painting a picture of an object that has already been painted. It’s as though he transforms the thick rich texture of oil paint into whipped cream or icing as he spreads it across the desserts on his canvas.
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