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Form Drawing: What is this Unique Waldorf School Subject?

March 30, 2021 by Kimberton Waldorf School

At Kimberton Waldorf School students in grades 1-5 typically participate in a subject that is unique to Waldorf schools: Form Drawing. Form drawing can be described as freehand drawing of patterns (often repeating forms) that introduces form and movement to our students. The practice of form drawing helps the students integrate developmental reflexes, develops fine and gross motor skills, eye-hand coordination, and control of movement. Form drawing also lays the groundwork for the study of geometry and geometric drawing which is introduced in 6th grade. Learn more about form drawing in Waldorf schools here from the Association of Waldorf Schools in North America:

Read more about form drawing in Waldorf Schools here

Filed Under: Art Gallery, Head, Heart and Hands: Teaching the Whole Child, Resources

The Self Portrait

May 13, 2019 by Kimberton Waldorf School

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

We are not an art school but every senior at KWS paints a self portrait.  This not only represents the culmination of the Waldorf painting curriculum, but requires students to engage with the deep questions of identity:  “Who am I?”, “How am I seen?” and, most importantly, “What is my place in the world?”

In high school, a new questioning about life and the personal search for truth and self-knowledge emerges and students are ready to confront good and evil, questions of destiny, evolution, and identity.  Through the self-portrait project students are challenged to really look at themselves closely to create a physical likeness but to also look deeply at who they are in this world.

Our high school curriculum encourages students to look at themselves, reflect back on their lives and go out into the world and contribute to it from the sense of who they are.

When students graduate from Kimberton Waldorf School, they leave with not only a strong academic foundation but with a sense of who they are, the ability to think for themselves, and the confidence in their capacity to learn and do whatever they put their minds to.

“The senior portrait class represents the culmination of the Waldorf painting curriculum, making use of all the years that come before it in the pursuit of a meaningful piece of art that students and their families can take with them and cherish for years beyond graduation. Pulling from drawing tools introduced and sharpened in 9th grade, painting technique developed in 10th grade, and color theory explored in 11th grade, seniors work for about two months to produce a self portrait that expresses their inner spirit coming into harmony with the external realities of their body.

“The potential for such a portrait is boundless, and seniors are often at first a little daunted. First of all, there is the hard work of really looking at themselves, of being objective and making measurements about things that often times they don’t want to dwell on. Throughout the course, students have to learn to be comfortable with how they look, and in doing so they come to understand that they themselves are beautiful despite what they think of as imperfections. The second daunting task comes in dealing with the number of choices they must make. Do they paint a realistic skin tone, or one that expresses some quality of themselves more metaphorically? Do they choose a background that puts them firmly rooted in the world, or do they paint one that uses color to make it, as we like to say in the painting room, “pop”? How do they pose for their initial photo session, which determines the basic structure of their drawing? The best way to answer these questions is always to jump right in, to do something fearlessly and know that mistakes are where the good stuff happens — learning, growing, correcting. One choice leads to another, which leads to another, and eventually the final outcome looks as if it couldn’t have been painted any other way.”  – Todd Stong, KWS Painting Teacher

This is EDUCATION THAT MATTERS.

Filed Under: Art Gallery, High School, In the Classroom, Resources

Seventh Grade: Charcoal and Pencil Drawings

March 18, 2016 by Kimberton Waldorf School

In 7th grade, there is a growing awareness of fact with an active outer prospective. Science and mathematics come together with work on perspective and drawing with the art curriculum. Exploration of light and shadow reflect these changes within a middle school student.

Filed Under: Art Gallery, In the Classroom, Resources

Second Grade: Paintings from Fables

March 14, 2016 by Kimberton Waldorf School

Fables play a vital role in role in the Second Grade. From retelling the stories to the child-generated writing, fables reflex the awakening of children’s awareness about their own qualities and those of others. From characters that have less desirable qualities to those that embody the ideal, second grades bring them into their learning and their play making to create a strong picture of morality and responsibility.

Filed Under: Art Gallery, In the Classroom, Resources

Eighth Grade: Platonic Solids

March 4, 2016 by Kimberton Waldorf School

From First Grade, Waldorf students begin their study of geometry with simple lines and forms. By Eighth Grade, students see shapes not as simple forms but with unique qualities in the pattern of nature, much like the students themselves.

Filed Under: Art Gallery, In the Classroom, Resources

High school: Landscape Studies

February 26, 2016 by Kimberton Waldorf School

Waldorf High School students travel through time and cultures in their language and history curriculums. There art reflects those journeys. Students learn
to see artworks of each culture as symbolic of the consciousness of the people in
a particular place at a given time. Students work with a variety of mediums to create landscapes reflective of their thoughts and ideas.

Filed Under: Art Gallery, High School, In the Classroom, Resources

Twelfth Grade: Children’s Zoology Books

February 12, 2016 by Kimberton Waldorf School

Reflecting back on a rich journey through the grades, this project captures the relationship of science, art, and writing that embodies an immersive curriculum. In their Zoology books, seniors showcase how subject areas come together and how writers of fiction can reflect facts from the world around them.

Filed Under: Art Gallery, High School, In the Classroom, Resources

Eighth Grade: History of the Reformation

February 12, 2016 by Kimberton Waldorf School

The Reformation is not studied as just a religious event in Eighth Grade but as political and cultural one as well. The ideals of universal rights are brought back from previous history lessons integrating with the observational skills of portrait drawing.

Filed Under: Art Gallery, In the Classroom, Lower School, Resources

Eighth Grade: Scratchboard Art

January 24, 2016 by Kimberton Waldorf School

Scratch-board art from the 8th grade at Kimberton Waldorf School.

Filed Under: Art Gallery, In the Classroom, Lower School, Resources

Second Grade: Snowman Paintings

January 22, 2016 by Kimberton Waldorf School

Painting by some of the second graders at Kimberton Waldorf School.

Filed Under: Art Gallery, In the Classroom, Lower School

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