We had our Youth Art Month regional art show at the mall this week. The reception was yesterday. The judges pick one artwork from each teacher to go on to the state art show at the capitol building, which will be held during the actual Youth Art Month (March). Here are my students’ artworks:
There are almost 200 blogs in the Art Teacher Blog Directory. Have you added yours? I was going to highlight some of the newer entries and then Mrs. Hahn posted some spotlights highlighting the blogs that are on the Art of Ed list, which reminded me that I was going to post about some of the newer entries in this blog directory. So, anyways… one of the newer blogs that I discovered is Ms. Branigan’s website. She has some interesting … Read more…
Check out this really cool FREE downloadable guided drawing book from Fairy Dust Teaching. Click on over to her website to get the lovely book. I’m going to print this out and have it in my drawing book section for kids to use in their free time.
Mobiles, by 7th and 8th gradersI wanted to share with you some of the mobiles that the middle school kids are doing at my school. I share a room with another art teacher, and I see all the projects they create. This is a really awesome project! The kids are having a blast and they are learning all about balance, movement, three-dimensional art, and more. They each started with large wires and these sticks (which I didn’t know what they … Read more…
Tom Lichtenheld, an author and illustrator, will be visiting EAGLE School at the end of October. To prepare for his visit, many of the classes will be seeing his art and listening to his books. The Intermediates are focusing on his book Everything I Know about Pirates. After reading his book, the students are drawing pirate pictures!
Tom Lichtenheld, an author and illustrator, will be visiting EAGLE School at the end of October. To prepare for his visit, many of the classes will be seeing his art and listening to his books. The Upper Primaries are focusing on his book Everything I Know about Monsters. They are designing their own silly monster friend.
I realized I hadn’t shown some of my personal artwork in awhile. I make art-like things. A lot. Here is a reminder for you. It’s very important to do this: Also, I want to say this to you, for reading my blog: Sunflowers are my favorite flower of them all. How about you? I really really love doodling. with watercolors. doodling with paint is just the best. Is your heart full of: ? If not, you need to go … Read more…
In Part One of the Art Elements Review, we worked on Line, Shape, Color and Form. This post will talk about Part Two, which is Value, Space and Texture. VALUE: the kids illustrated a value scale with either crayon or pencil SPACE: This was shown through overlap, perspective, positive/negative space, filling the page, etc. TEXTURE: The kids used texture rubbing plates and crayons to show texture. All of these element exercises were on small pieces of paper and we taped … Read more…
The 1st graders learned about recycled art and how to use unconventional materials in art. We read 2 books by Hanoch Piven, which feature portraits made out of objects. The children brought in objects from home that represented aspects of themselves and we assembled the parts into faces in art class. I had three 8th grade volunteers who helped hot glue everything. We used foam board and matboard for the base of the faces. Scroll down to see more examples … Read more…
I was playing around with how to make a fun art doll for 1st grade. You will need to get either parent volunteers or older helpers to hot glue. I am lucky to have a K-8 school where there is often study halls in which I can borrow older kids for help. Here is what I came up with. 1. Cut a piece of muslin fabric into a square. Place it in the palm of your hand. Put a ball … Read more…
Welcome back to a new school year! Clean Classroom Origami Hanging from Ceiling Conduct Contract taped to inside of sketchbook Decorating the sketchbook covers with our names
I am going through this book called The Element, by Ken Robinson. I’m actually listening to it in my car on cd! I find that listening to books on cd is a good way to pass the time in the car. I’ve only listened to about a half an hour, but I already recommend it. It is all about creativity, nurturing different types of intelligences, finding and developing talent and pursuing a career that utilizes all of your creative talent. … Read more…
Here is a really cool book I found. It’s called “Willy Whyner, Cloud Designer.” I’m not really sure how I would use this in the classroom, but the pictures are awesome. It’s about a boy who’s a dreamer and thinks about clouds. Then he goes into the business of designing clouds. Look! His parents look like the people from American Gothic! Clouds in the sky! A moon cloud! A whale cloud! Even advertising clouds! Don’t forget to leave a comment … Read more…
Part 2 of my Giveways starts now! I am cleaning out my book shelves. Several of the books I have are duplicates from my home collection with the ones my school has. Since I have reached 200 followers, I want to thank the people that read and respond to my posts and contribute awesome blog posts in return. Even if you have never commented before, now is your chance. If you would like a chance to win this book, I … Read more…
I’m having a series of giveaways because I have reached 200 followers. The first giveaway will be for this book: MULTICULTURAL ART ACTIVITIES FROM THE CULTURES OF AFRICA, ASIA AND NORTH AMERICA (GRADES 2-5) All you have to do is leave a comment here and I randomly pick from the people who commented. You have until next week Wednesday to leave a comment. I have so many art books, and many are duplicates of ones that I have at … Read more…
