Here is one of my favorite little clay projects I have done. We made clay monsters. I taught this project about 5 years ago and I haven’t done it again. I think I will do it again this year. These are really easy. You just make a pinch pot, turn it on its side and then add your features. We painted these with neon tempera paints. Acrylic paints would probably work better. We also spray varnished them. And now it’s … Read more…
Today I am going to share with you some pages inside the book Parade, by Donald Crews. This book would be excellent to illustrate the idea of showing depth through overlapping. The colors and pictures are so much fun!
Today I am featuring Karen Bosch on the 5th installment of the Art Teacher Showcase. 1) My name is Karen Bosch and my blog is Pixels and Paintbrushes: http://blogs.southfieldchristian.org/pixelsandpaintbrushes/ I also have a personal blog called Clever Karen which features the creative side of my non-teaching life: http://cleverkaren.blogspot.com/ 2) Last year was my FIRST year teaching elementary art at Southfield Christian School in Southfield, Michigan USA. However, I am not a new teacher – I spent many years teaching third grade … Read more…
I figured out how to make a stand-alone page for the art teacher directory! If you haven’t added your’s yet, you must! It needs to be an art teacher blog, however. I will delete it if it is something else. Find the art teacher blog directory here.
I am taking a watercolor class this summer at the local recreation and parks department. Our first real painting assignment was to paint a picture of clouds. No, it couldn’t be just a white cloud on white paper. This was a great assignment, because it is actually one that I do with my 5th and 6th grade students. Now I will know some new tips and techniques to share with them. You can see their beautiful pictures at this … Read more…
The next Art Teacher Blog I will be showcasing is Jody Sebring’s. 1. The name and URL of your blog www.artfor1170.blogspot.com2. A brief description of your blog and why it is awesome. Tell us where you live and work, what you do, etc. Not sure I am at “Awesome” yet but it’s new, since April and so much fun. I teach in Clarkston Michigan for the Clarkston School District. I teach Pre K-5th grade art.3. An example of a tried … Read more…
Another fun activity we did at art summer camp was blowing ink with straws. First, squirt out a bit of liquid watercolor (we did not dilute it at all). Then, take a straw and hold it right above the ink and BLOW! See what happens! You can embellish them with writing, drawing or more paint. We also used paint dabbers to add circles. Fun Fun Fun! Some of the kids also worked with calligraphy pens and inks during this time. … Read more…
Daria’s second preschool art class was all about gluing. She had a blast thickly applying the glue stick to plastic containers and putting little bits and bobs on it. She had fun sorting the pom-poms and coloring with oil pastels on the plastic. I didn’t know oil pastels showed up on plastic!
I’ve been busy making lots of personal artwork… Here are some journal pages and greeting cards: If you want to see more of my artwork, check out my other blog.
During the summer, I’m going to dig back to some of my old lesson plans that I had posted on artsonia.com to show to you. Maybe I will revisit these again during the upcoming school year. This was favorite of mine and I don’t know why I stopped teaching it. The pictures all turned out gorgeous. CUBIST CATS for Second GradeThe kids learned about Picasso and his dynamic, fragmented Cubist artwork. 1. First we did a step-by-step drawing of a … Read more…
“Summer months are slow in blogland for teachers. Most art teachers are taking a break from teaching all day. Some are doing art camps or personal travels, but I know that in the summer months, not as many teachers post ideas, since we’re not teaching full time now. However, summer free time is a perfect time to research ideas, look at art eye candy, experiment and have fun! So, what I would like to do to help you out in … Read more…
Linda Barry combines funny comics, drawings, and text in a book for adults about how to get your drawing juices flowing. There’s how tos are more for an adult who just wants to get started drawing. Her own comics and art are what is really inspiring for me! I also enjoy her commentary and questioning about the drawing process and creativity. In one comic the dialogue says, “If you use coloring books past the age of ten, you will wreck … Read more…
We had Daria’s (my daughter) first art class today and she really enjoyed the water cup! The kids painted on the floor and there was a big tarp protecting the floor. Some kids used their hands, others brushes and others used their feet. Some of the other objects the kids (aged 18 months-3 years old) used to paint with were pineconesropespongescorks Painting with a rope.. what does it do? And here’s something cool, the people over at Somerset Studio magazine … Read more…
box of stickers This was a super fun art project that I forgot to blog about earlier. We did this at the summer art class I taught at my school. Tape and sticker pictures. I wrote about tape and sticker pictures earlier which I love to do with my 20 month old daughter. The above picture is a box of stickers I made. I took some sticky address labels, and color photocopied some patterned paper onto the sticky labels. Then, … Read more…
For the next installment of Art Teacher Showcase, I am highlighting Ilse Verhoeven. I have been reading her blog for about a year now. What is your blog? 1) http://artlessonsfrombelgium.blogspot.com/ Tell us about yourself and your teaching.2) I’m a Belgian art-teacher. I have been teaching for 7 years. The last four years I have been teaching children with learning difficulties too. I love teaching them.Finding projects for those children isn’t always easy. It can’t be too difficult, but I want … Read more…
