A blog I recently discovered : Talking to Volcano Another big favorite blog of mine: Grrlscrap I’m having another giveaway of a book I no longer look through. The book is: Kaleidoscope: Ideas & Projects to Spark Your Creativity If you are interested, post a comment here and then I will randomly choose a winner on Tuesday. Sign up by MONDAY! Also a link to the blog that has linked to me and has given me the most traffic this … Read more…
Shape Collages— The kindergartners learned about geometric and organic shapes. We read a book called When a Line Bends, a Shape Begins. We made a shape collage using cut construction paper. Lines and shapes were added with marker.
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Another challenge I recently discovered is Michelle Ward’s street team crusade. There is a new technique every month and then you post your results. This month the challenge is “It’s a Wrap”. You are supposed to incorporate wrapping paper, tags or cards into your artwork. This is some Christmas wrapping paper, combined with my own drawing and painting. Overall, for an experiment I am fine with how they turned out. I would like to have been able to glue down … Read more…
Last chance to sign up for this random giveaway of an art book. See this post to sign up. I will choose a winner tomorrow.
Egyptian Profile Paintings:The 4/5s have studied ancient Egypt in their social studies class. In Art class, they are using the standard proportions of the human face to draw each other in profile. Then, they are adding typical ancient Egyptian headdresses, clothes and jewelry to their portraits. Finally, they are drawing some hieroglyphics to finish the picture.
“highly prized” drawings for the Sketchbook Challenge
This last one will have text added to it later probably.
In honor of reaching 100 followers on this blog, which in my opinion is really darn cool, I’m going to do a series of giveaways. In the spirit of sharing, decluttering and passing things on to good homes, please participate if you are interested in the giveaway offered. As an art teacher, subscribing to magazines, purchasing books, receiving other people’s art books and always being on the look out for good sales, I end up with way more things than … Read more…
Wow! I have 99 followers! I decided that when I reach 100, I’m going to have a special giveaway. It will probably involve an art book or magazines from my stash. 🙂 And here is another sketchbook page, because i cannot post a pictureless entry!
watercolor sketchbook page
Native American Potttery:The 3/4s are learning about Native American pottery, in particular the Mimbres bowls. Check out the link for more information. They made their own coil-built pot and used sgraffito techniques to design the inside of the bowl. We used Mayco Stroke and Coat Underglaze and then painted Amaco clear glaze on top. I love the brilliant colors. I would never have tried this because it’s more expensive than others, but my colleague WON a whole box of this … Read more…
I’m following along with the Strathmore Visual Journaling Workshops and here a few of the pages I created so far. The first workshop is about taking copies of your previous artwork and cutting them up and reusing them on your journal pages. There are blank spaces left because I think she will be talking about writing and doodling next.
Islamic Art In this project the 5/6s are tying together Social Studies, Math and Art! They are making a geometric tile design (based on their name) using repeating shapes and patterns. They viewed a slide show about characteristics of Islamic art and the variety of types of Islamic art. Step 1: Cut 12 x 12″ piece of paper. Fold in half then in half again. Step 2: Open and fold one more time, diagonally. Step Three: Write your name on … Read more…
