Leaf rubbings and Collage

The start of a sketch book cover

Luna has a great eye for composition

Fiber, paper, leaves, color and even newspaper

Each one so completely unique

PIPP: Pencil, Ink, Paint, and Pastel

A little water makes all the difference

When the ink dried we added watercolor

These will be finished up next week

Leaf Bowls - The glazing part

I wish I had shots of them rolling out the clay and making these bowls.  I was too involved to take pictures that class.  This is the much easier part.

                                                   We had a great day to glaze outside.

Three coats!  thats a lot of work!

finishing up our line drawings

We also studied The Five Elements of shape with some drawing exercises last week

LINE : a important element of art

Block Letters, Names and Lines - They love their names

 The lesson was to fill in and connect their letters in a creative way with lines.

Ahh what one can do with a sharpie! 

Clay Botanical Magnets

We started off the Fall session with exploring imprints and embossing in clay

Dreaming with Marc Chagall

After splitting a large piece of paper into 4 triangles

Students were to draw a profile of a person, and an animal
The other two triangle showed their dreams

Falon was pleased with how her's came together

I thought it might be fun to do a collaborative piece.....Marc Chagall style

We have work to do on it tomorrow....we'll see how it comes together!
Jackson thinks its going in the Portland Art museum where his dad works :)

Stamping with Found objects - aka "Junk"

After all the Self-Portrait "tight work" I wanted to loosen things up

The boys seemed to really enjoy this one!

They got Loose alright!

Self Portraits Inspired by Chuck Close

After looking at Chuck Close's work each student copied their  cropped face on a grid

Instructions were to choose two colors per square.  Colored Pencil or Marker their choose.

It was nice to have an on going project to pull out and work on at each child pace

Each one incredibly unique

Breaking down the "whole" into parts - learning to Draw

Starting with a picture 

paying attention to each part

just an all around good practice drawing exercise

Collage "Kandinsky Style"

We stained our wood first and cut the trunk using our hands and elongating our fingers for branches

Concentric Circles became the leaves
Lots of cutting and glueing

Salmon Prints

We first drew our Salmon Fish by SHAPE

Created a "sandwich of papers...one with a wax side to apply paint

Press and Print!

Kendall added bubbles

Eve's has a lot of fluid texture

"Hearts" - Jim Dine Style

This was our Valentines Week lesson.We used Mixed Media to create symbols of Love and Friendship after an introduction of pop artist Jim Dine.

How to Draw a Dog - breaking down the shapes