Spring Trees on Wood

Spring Trees on Wood
Collage "Kandinsky Style"

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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




Saturday, May 4, 2013

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


Sunday, April 14, 2013

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

Sunday, March 10, 2013

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


Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Painting "Ted Harrison" style

We studied Ted Harrison's work and did a draft
Lots of  dramatic skies...........

....................................and Bold Contour lines


These are coming out so great I just went and got 25 frames for them!