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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Greenfish

I read a sort of summary of a story that talked of the myths surrounding the creation of greenstone. I made it into a bit of a Michaelmas-type story. Super-abbreviated the story is basically about a fish. He finds a magic key to free a castle from the enchantment of a ferocious dragon. He swims against the current to bring the key to a courageous boy. Then he dies & turns into a greenstone, thus still giving us beauty today in the form of jade. I had the students draw the sea first & then draw the fish in yellow. Magic! - Green. It was nice for them to experience mixing colors in this way.

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