'Metal" Embellished Ornaments

The techniques used for this project all combined to create some amazing ornaments! Students were curious how they were made and had a great time assembling these faux metal collages. 

Musical Bird Project!

The Musical Bird Project for this week's classes was so much fun! Students painted, cut, and pasted these collages to create some beautiful designs and color combinations..   

More of my artwork: small books, watercolors, oils, and acrylic paintings

New Art Work

This is a watercolor from my own collection of art work I've created. It was more a painting from a memory of a place I had visited on a trip.

Pumpkin inspired by Yayoi Kusama

I thought you might like to try creating this pumpkin so here are the instructions. 

• Draw a pumpkin with ribs and a stem on a piece of colored paper.
• Paint ribs with black paint. Add polka dots in different sizes.
• Cut this out and glue onto a larger piece of paper in a different color. Try a complimentary color scheme.
• Draw circles or triangles or rectangles across the whole background, letting them tough each other on one side. Use black marker or paint. Add white paint in between the black shapes. I used a gel pen.
• Glue onto a piece of black paper and enjoy! 

Falling Leaves

Leaves in paint and crayon!

Inspired by the beautiful colors of the foliage in our backyards, the class painted colorful leaves today using negative painting. So we colored around each leaf shape, paying attention to not just their shapes but the shapes between each leaf. Hope you like it!
Here are the instructions:

• Paint leaf colors on white paper. Not leaf shapes but just the color. Red, orange and yellow are good ones. Overlap colors a bit and balance each color over your paper.
• Gather leaves and trace them on top of your painting. Attach them to branches. When you draw the branches make sure they are double lines!
• Now using crayon, color "behind" the leaves and branches. Go right to the edge of your paper, coloring around the leaves. You will have to color over some of your painting but the result will be beautiful! I used a dark purple crayon for this example. 
• Have fun! 

Art Classes starting soon in Greenville and Burrillville!

Art work created by students using watercolor and acrylic paints!

Beautiful art from Summer Camp!

Some expamples of Butterfly Monoprints, Hand Painted Tote Bags, Faux Metal Mosaics and Ocean Creatures created using tempera paints, oil pastels, markers, fabric crayons, embossed foil, and embellishments culminating in a spectacular art show!

Tote Bags! and more.......

Summer Classes starting soon!
This is an example of the tote bags we will be designing at Art Camp next week!

Summer Art Camp starting soon!

Inspired by Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

Inspired by Ashanti textiles

Inspired by Lilacs, color mixing, and texture

Beautiful student work from children's art classes this past year

Student Work at the Art Show

Student work
These are acrylic paintings created
 after visiting the Rhode Island School of Design's museum.
They are on display now
 at the Greenville Library.
Check out the work!....it is amazing! 

Student work 

These are collages created in a metal repousse style

and also displayed at the 

Greenville Library

Art show and Opening!

This show will be up for 2 weeks 

so please stop by

 for a visit 

to check out all

 the amazing student work! 

Painting Pastries!

After Wayne Thiebaud

Acrylic and Pastel

The class was inspired by the American artist Wayne Thiebaud this week. We worked with live "models" of cupcakes and cookies to express his use of vibrant colors and greyed down shadows and backgrounds. A lot of fun!

"I try to find things to paint which I feel have bren overlooked."
                                                                 ---- Wayne Thiebaud

New Art Classes starting next week!

New art class sessions are starting next week! This is some of the beautiful work students have created using watercolors, acrylics, markers, oil pastels and more!