I’m a finalist for one of the top Art Education blogs on Jessica’s website. If you’ve enjoyed reading my blog, take a second and vote for me! Also, be sure to check out all of the other blogs, as every single one of them are ones that I regularly read. If you want to see some quality art teacher blogs… take a look at this list:theartofed.com/2012/01/15/finalists-announced-vote-for-art-ed-blog-of-the-year
Check out this really cool FREE downloadable guided drawing book from Fairy Dust Teaching. Click on over to her website to get the lovely book. I’m going to print this out and have it in my drawing book section for kids to use in their free time.
This is a repost from my personal blog! I’ve been having lots of fun with Traci Bautista’s online workshop at Strathmore. Strathmore has a series of FREE online workshops with videos and pdfs. If you haven’t heard about it, you should check it out! The first session was about spraying with stencils, overpainting the stenciled images and adding details with markers. Here are some of the pictures I am working on. These still need marker doodles on top, although they … Read more…
The kindergartners made two clay projects before break. They made little pinch pots and pressed shells on the sides for texture. We glazed these with Stroke and Coat glaze. We also made these fun coiled hearts. 1. Demonstrate how to roll coils with your fingers.2. Pass out a handout with a heart drawn on it (I just free hand drew a heart and photocopied it.)3. Place the coil on the outside edge of the heart and wrap it around. Then … Read more…
In my college clay class I learned this extremely valuable clay trick. One of my students called it an “ancient clay secret” so I like to call it that too. This technique may be one that is known to you, but if you have never seen it, this technique may be helpful to you in your classroom. This has saved many pots from falling over in my teaching career. Uh-oh! The walls are lopsided and falling over! What do I … Read more…
This was a project that my first graders started when I was absent from school. I printed off the handout from Art Projects for Kids and the children got their first introduction to perspective. Thanks for the great project!
These are drawings by 4th/5th graders. Who was Keith Haring? What is gesture drawing? The 4/5s learned about the artwork of Keith Haring and practiced figural drawing. In pairs, the students posed for each other and practiced gesture drawing and longer posed drawings. Then they drew stylized people, kind of in a cartoon-like way. We read pages from this book about Keith Haring and analyzed the meanings of his artwork. The kids were encouraged to add their own symbols to … Read more…
