Ms. Muller

          I am glad you are visiting my Instruction section of Eastford Elementary School's website. You will find pages below my name with grading policy, state curriculum standards, live links to interesting websites related to units of study, and also photo galleries of projects connected to ART. The Designing Minds page is related to the enrichment program I facilitate at EES.
       For those who have asked what kind of art I like to make at home, you can see at the bottom of this page the full size statue I created for a recent sculpture exhibition. Since our art students are often required to write about projects they have created, I have written the following three paragraphs as an example of an "Artist's Statement" explaining some facts about my sculpture and how I made it:
  
      I enjoy playing with words, so I titled my artwork, "Mo-Neigh" which rhymes with "Monet"----Claude Monet was a French painter in the late 1800's who loved hay stacks and countryside scenes. Since horses also love hay and fields (and I love horses), I borrowed Monet's painting style to paint a scene on a blank horse statue like Monet might have painted it. I wanted a head-down horse position so the statue will seem happily grazing in his own world of green grass. The only parts of the statue that aren't covered by a landscape are the horse's eyes...I painted them to appear very realistic because I wanted the horse to seem alive.
     So, Mo-neigh is my way of showing how I feel strongly about horses, agricultural land, AND painting. The art is both 3D and 2D because it's a walk-around statue that is covered by a painting. This was a lot of work in acrylic paint using many brushes, but I enjoyed every hour invested (all 80 of them!). If you could see the statue up close, you might find tiny surprises that I painted into the scenery on the horse. You might see my real animals, wildlife, and places I especially love near my home.
     Before I sold the statue, I photographed it in a setting that matched the painting as much as possible. Then I loaded it up, aboard a horse trailer of course, and delivered Mo-neigh to a new home near The Hillstead Museum in Farmington, CT.
                           
                                 
                                                  Thanks for visiting,
                                                                                 Ms. Muller

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