"Sienna drew a grizzly bear. It was climbing
a giant tree trunk with a beehive inside and
licking honey from its paws.
I can add leaves if you want.
Before Sienna could say yes, Andy was
covering the branches with little green
circles."
When Sienna's art teacher puts out crayons as the medium for entries to the spring art show, Sienna is late to the table and the two crayons left are shades of brown. What can you draw with only brown crayons? One of the kids teases that she will be drawing 'mud and dog poop'.
Sienna's imagination fails her when she tries to think of ways to draw some of her favorite things using only brown. Her teacher encourages her to think outside her go-to images, and think about all things brown. What can she draw using brown crayons? Classmates offer encouragement by suggesting chocolate ice cream and a grizzly bear. Good ideas, for sure.
With ten minutes left to complete her entry, Sienna remembers an afternoon at home with her mom, drinking hot chocolate and hearing her mom say that brown is a beautiful color. That observation had been in reference to the differences in their brown skin color. The memory sparks the perfect solution - she will draw her family, showing the differing tones in her parents' skin, and the mix that is her own.
It is an ideal entry for the art show.
Shantala Robinson’s attention-getting cut-paper artwork is textured and appealing. She creates a classroom filled with diverse children interacting as they work together to complete a given task.
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