Fra Angelico; The Annunciation; And The Use of Coloring Pages or Puzzles in Picture Study

Altarpiece of the Annunciation. c. 1430-1432. Tempera on panel. 194 x 194. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain


For part of our picture study today, we water-colored copies of the picture we studied this week. 
This is not to reproduce it as art, for as Charlotte Mason says, that to try to copy a work would only serve to lessen the "reverence for great work,"  but serves to help the student to carefully and clearly look at the details in the painting.

"...Beyond this of a rough study from memory of a given picture or of any section of it, these picture studies do not afford much material for actual drawing; they are never copied lest an attempt to copy should lessen a child's reverence for great work... - Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 p. 213-218


Exclamations of, "Oh, look at this" come every now and again, then he goes on to show me some part of the painting he had just noticed.
A Peaceful Day explains the use of jigsaw puzzles in this same way.


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