What is a focal point? How do artists arrange their composition? What is emphasis? How have words and letters been used in art? These are some of the questions the 1st graders explored in their first unit. We looked…
What is art? What materials can be used to create art? How do we properly use art materials? These are the questions that the Nest (grade K) discussed at the beginning of the school year. They also learned about the…
I’m trying to find a way to use up all the photos I take. Here is a mixed media collage using a flower photo I took.
I started out the year with the Primary students (1st grade) drawing small, quick self portraits. One kid drew himself as a pirate! lol. The 4/5s (4th/5th graders mixed) looked at gears and drew them from observation. I also had…
Waiting and Watching, photo, fabric, gesso, watercolor and fabric spray paints, September 2010
I’m in love with painting tiles and making tiles from Sculpey. I just tried making Sculpey tiles this week and wow, was it fun!! I got the idea from Laurie Mika’s book Mixed Media Mosaics. I got the idea for…
Today was our first day of school. Would you like to see a glimpse of my room? Paints Paintbrushes Free Draw Cart View of the classroom. We have small rooms because we have small classes. This is the view from…
I just discovered a fun blog from a kindergarten teacher who does lots of way cool art projects. These kids are so lucky to have such a creative teacher! I’m impressed with the felted balls she made with the kindergartners. …
I really like THESE drawings. (they are not mine, but they are making me want to pick up my sketchpad.) Drawings in a crowded cafe. If you click on the link above you can see them up close.
At our church garage sale I picked up a large bag of pine cones for $2. I suppose I could have found pine cones on the ground, but hey, they were all in a bag right in front of me…
I’m going to have some of my students do a creativity exercise on the first day of school to get their juices flowing. Creativity TestDirections: Use your imagination to invent something that we could add to the school. It could…
So, you may remember that I made a couple clay figures as demos for a kids’ clay class that I taught. I painted the girl and put her in a chair that I had. This is a chair made of…
Making jewelry is one of the hobbies I enjoy. When people ask me what kind of art I do on my own, I have a hard time saying what I do… I love photography, jewelry making, collages, drawing, watercolor, clay. …
We went to the Wisconsin Dells the other weekend and of course, I took about 300 pictures. My theory is that if you take 300 pictures, one of them is bound to look great! Playing around with photo editing online…