Bob Boyer

We went to the McKenzie Art Gallery. When we got there we split into three groups. In my group, the first thing we did was go into the coat room to put our coats away. Then we headed for the big room and made an art drawing. We could do it like Bob Boyer did or we could make our own design. My group choose to make our own designs. We used stencils and oil pastels. My picture was of different designs and shapes. After we were finished our pictures we went to wash our hands then we went up to the Bob Boyer exhibits. We went and sat down. Our guide tour talked to us about a couple of the paintings on that wall. Then we moved over to some more paintings and she talked about those ones. A lot of his paintings were about horses.
Then we went into a different area and we saw paintings on blankets. Bob Boyer did lots of paintings on Blankets.

After that we went into a very big area and we did a little project. The project was we got a sheet of paper and there were a whole bunch of blank circles and we got to decorate the circles anyway we wanted to. After that she took them and we went into a different room. In this room there were paintings on blankets and on canvas. There was a bunch of felt material in bags. We went into groups and picket a painting from the wall and then we had to take the felt and lay it out the floor like the picture. Then we talked about it. After that the tour was over. We went back downstairs and got our coats and went to the front doors where we went back on the bus that took us back to school.

I learned that when an artist paints a picture, the painting has a story. One of the paintings was of a horse who lost his owner in a battle they were in. The horse was a first nations horse. I could tell it was a first nations horse because it had bead work on its saddle. The horse had its head down. I could tell the rider died in a war and the horse was sad. Where the saddle was on the horse there were a couple of dots above the saddle on the horse. Those dots meant that the rider was gone. So what I learned is that all paintings tell a story and have different meanings. So if you ever go to see paintings, look at the painting and look for the story it might contain.

Bo Boyer died in 2004, he was 52 years old. He lived his entire life in Saskatchewan. He was born in 1948. Bob Boyer isn’t just a regular kind of artist, he was different. IF you ever go to the Mackenzie art gallery, you will see that all of his painting have a story to tell.

My favorite paintings from his collection that I saw are A Small Pox Issue 1983. Another one I liked a lot was Scene/seen at St. Victor: 1993. He is an amazing artist and his work is all beautiful. I thought I would see all drawings and I saw a whole lot of paintings. Now when I see paintings and artists drawings, I will appreciate them more for what they mean to the artist and what story I might get from them.

Barbara is another artist that we were working with to help her to complete an art project that she was doing. We made origami blow up boxes out of paper that she took to the Mackenzie Art Gallery and made a city out of them. When we went on our tour to the Mackenzie Art Gallery we got to go see it. It was cool that we helped her make her art.

By Sara edits mom , parker mark out of 5 is a 5