True Random Number Generator Result: 1 Powered by RANDOM.ORG Pam Speaker you are the winner. Please email me your address! you can email marciadotcom @ yahoo . com (no spaces). Congrats! Pam Speaker said… This sounds like a neat book! I’m a first year teacher and new to blogging! I find myself looking for books often to spark creativity in my lessons and in the art room. This giveaway is a great idea :]
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…
I’m making a blank scrapbook for a gift. This person is having twins, so I’m actually making two books. It’s not for someone I know, but it is something my sister-in-law wants me to make for her to give as a gift. Does that make sense? Anyways, I’ve made these before as gifts and they are just the scrapbook pages without the photos. Anywhere you see “pic” is where the pic would go. I need to assemble them all in … Read more…
Yay, I love Christmas. I’m not someone who likes to celebrate Christmas for two months with lights, decorations and music since Thanksgiving. But on the actual party days with families, I have a lot of fun. I’m also very excited because I have 2 weeks off of teaching to spend time with my darling baby girl and also to spend some time making art. Daria (who is 1 year and 2 months old) has started to become interested in coloring … Read more…
One ornament made by a student The week before winter break not much gets done in the classroom. It’s hard to start something new when we will be off school for 2 weeks. So, as kids finished up projects I took out a bunch of random art supplies, cookie cutters, glitter, felt, and pipe cleaners for them to make stuff out of. Here’s an ornament example one kid made.
This is hanging in my living. Inspiration was a dream I had about an octopus strangling me and then I was looking through some children’s books and saw some odd pictures of octopuses (octopi?) and I did a series of octopus artworks.. the others have since seen their demise. This was oil on masonite board. (pretty sure it was oil.. I made this about 10 years ago.) I’ve been reading a little bit of Michelle Ward’s street team crusade challenges … Read more…
This was another good lesson I found on someone’s blog. Claim it if it was yours.. sorry can’t remember who. It was an old Halloween lesson.
Today was our first day of school. Would you like to see a glimpse of my room? Any of these pictures you can see larger by clicking on them. Paints Paintbrushes Free Draw Cart View of the classroom. We have small rooms because we have small classes. This is the view from our window. It is the back of our school. The playground is to the right and there is a bike trail in the distance. Miscellaneous supplies Kiln room … Read more…
Rule #1: Thank the person who gave you your award. Thanks to Mini Matisse for giving me this AWARD. Wooh! I feel so special. I didn’t know anyone had actually been reading seriously. Her blog has lots of great art lesson plans too. Rule #2: Share 7 things about yourself 1. I have been married since 2006 to my wonderful husband Andrew, who is a radio news reporter. We met in college in Illinois. 2. We have a 10 1/2 month … Read more…
Making jewelry is one of the hobbies I enjoy. When people ask me what kind of art I do on my own, I have a hard time saying what I do… I love photography, jewelry making, collages, drawing, watercolor, clay. I dabble in a little bit of everything. So, my mother-in-law and I went to a craft show in Madison this weekend and we want to start selling some crafts. She is thinking about sewing some kids’ capes for boys … Read more…
I purchased Carla Sonheim’s drawing book, because I’m always interested in looking at new drawing books or new mixed media art books and this is a combination of both. She has a lot of drawing exercises on her blog also. As an art teacher who avidly researches all sorts of art lesson plans, I have seen some of these drawing exercises before, but Carla puts her own unique spin on everything. I really like how the book is laid out, … Read more…
When I taught middle school art, one of the sketchbook assignments I had the kids complete was a page of doodling. They looked very much these. Bohemian Shadows blog gives a nice tutorial for this type of doodling. There are also books and workshops with the name “Zentangles” (not by Bohemian Shadows).. they coined the name which is basically just a glorified name for doodling. Anyways…. I think this year I will print out some examples for my elementary students … Read more…
