RCCAC Fun

For my Read, Play, Create class we read Madeline today, then we created this bouquet of flowers (lilies) by tracing our hands on construction paper, cutting them out, gluing them to a straw, adding leaves and curling the "fingers". We also played doctor to some very sick stuffed animals. :o) What fun.

More trees and step-by-step sunset paintings. :o)

This is an acrylic painting by one of my 6th grade students. WOW! She did a great job. :o)

Calligraphy

Here are a few detail photos of a calligraphy piece that I just finished for someone.

DHS Academy Classes

Step By Step Watercolor Portraits
In my intermediate watercolor class we worked on portraits. We did a step by step portrait on watercolor paper and then we painted them. The photos posted above are in progress. I will post more photos next week.

Winter Trees
Tonight my beginning watercolor class did two step-by-step paintings. We did a snowy tree painting where we painted either a wash in the sky or a wet on wet wash in the sky. Then the students added some shadows on the snow if they wished. After the background dried we used straws and India ink to create some "spider painting" trees. This is a fun way to paint trees because you can get some unusual shapes.

The second painting was a watery sunset painting. I will add photos of it later.

Colored Pencil Giraffe drawing by one of my 6th grade students. :o)

Fun at RCCAC

Saran Wrap Technique:

• tape down your watercolor paper
• paint a wash (or wet-on-wet technique) onto your paper using several colors
• apply a piece of saran wrap and scrunch it up until you are satisfied with the design
• wait until it dries, then remove the saran wrap
  

Here is an example of the results:


We are going to paint quotes on these soon. :o)
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Here are some paintings that we did just as practice, while trying out some new masking techniques.

















Here are the result of our wax resist paintings:

My Read, Play, Create class read "Where the Wild Things Are". We had a wild rumpus, playing instruments, and made Wild Thing collages.

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Once again no photos of calligraphy. Sorry. In class we worked on calligraphic writing using the calligraphy pens with nibs that you dip in ink. The students practiced, wrote their names in different fonts, designed a cover sheet for the front of their book, and wrote quotes.