This week one of Zoey's assignments for art using the book Geography Through Art was to create and design a Huipil (pronounced, Wee-Peel) cloth on paper using pencil and paper and then coloring it in with markers. This is what she came up with.
The huipil is a piece of cloth woven in Guatemala. It is usually woven by hand. These beautiful garments are embroidered with images from nature and everyday life and the designs are often times personal. It is said that you can tell from the designs, what family a person is from or what village they live in or what religion they practice.
Zoey isn't always a fan when it comes to art projects that are required...she enjoys doing her own thing but she said that she enjoyed coming up with the designs for this particular project. I kind of wish that we would have used paint instead of markers as you can tell some of them were drying out. Next time we'll know to check the marker supply!
Our new block schedule is working out incredibly so far this week! So happy with it. Zoey's accomplishing so much more during the day, it's crazy! She's more relaxed and is having fun too.
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