New art student. Yeah! :o)

I had a new student start this morning. What fun. She did one of the techniques that I was talking about a few days ago. She drew a design with oil pastels. Then she painted with watercolor over top of the pastel drawing, creating a resist technique. This student is a first grader.

She also created some artists trading cards out of her paper towel and made a few sketchbooks, which are not shown here.

RCCAC Art Show

I enjoyed the RCCAC art show today.

Here are a few books that some of the kids made in my Destination: Inspiration art class.

Here are the clay Santa's that my middle school girls made.

This piece is an oil pastel still life that one of my students did.

A 5th grade student of mine is working on this dinosaur artwork with colored drawing pencils.

Watercolor Glue Design

One of my 7th grade students created this design. She drew the design with pencil first and then traced it with glue. After the glue was dry she painted it with watercolors. You could also do this technique with a white crayon, or oil pastel. I have even seen it done with black glue. (add black acrylic paint to a container of glue) It creates a stained glass effect. My student wished afterward that she had either not drawn the lines in pencil or at least lightened them before gluing.

DHS Academy Watercolor Classes

This week in the beginners' class we created these background papers out of watercolor. We painted a wash of various colors and then while the wash was wet we added plastic wrap on top of the wet paint, scrunched it up, and then left it to dry. Once dry we removed the plastic wrap. We are going to write quotes on top of these backgrounds.

We also worked more on our mixing designs.

In the intermediate class we did a warm-up where we listened to instrumental music and painted dots of color to the music. This exercise was intended to loosen every one up, get them ready to paint and also introduce the idea of painting spots of color, which they will need to do to paint in an impressionistic style.

We focused on Monet today. I showed the class some examples of his work and also photos of his flower garden. Students then chose a photograph to paint from in an impressionist style. Although this idea was new for most of the students they did a very nice job. I will add photos soon. :o)

Calligraphy Class

We also had calligraphy class today but I forgot to take photos. I will try to add some photos of this next week. Today we made hand-sewn books, and practiced using a brush and ink.

The Little Engine that Could

Today in my Read, Play, Create class we read the story "The Little Engine that Could". We made a train out of boxes and then the kids took turns "driving" the stuffed animals over the mountain in our train. The children and their parents also made train collages with paper, glue, crayons and stickers.