Beautiful Owls and Trees from the Art Show

Student Work at the Art Show Reception

Parents, students, and friends participated in the Art Show, exhibiting work from the entire school year. It was a fantastic evening, full of conversation about art and awarding certificates of excellence! 

Amazing Art Day at the Farm!!!

Inspired by bunnies, chickens, roosters, goats and kids, the class filled their sketch books with many fantastic and beautiful drawings! What an amazing day!

Kate's Mandalas

Tulip in Watercolor!

Watercolor with added watercolor pencil

It's spring and tulips are blooming! These beautiful flowers make great studies for color and pattern. 

A great way to add watercolor pencil to a painting that needs more definition is to use the pencil in several ways. One way is to add lines on edges, softening them with a wet brush. The second way is to dip the watercolor pencil in water first and then color or add lines. Try this technique and let me know what you think!

Seurat's Dots!

"Lots of Dots!"

This is a project the classes have been doing lately. The drawing was created by placing lots of dots next to and overlapping each other. When you look at this from a distance, the colored dots blend together to create new colors. This was a technique created by the artist Georges Seurat, a post impressionist very interested in precision and the symbolic and emotional meanings of color. It sometimes took him 2 years to complete one painting. Try this project and you will understand why! 

Psanky style eggs!

Psanky Egg Project!

Psanky Eggs made by students

Look at the beautiful hand painted eggs made by my students in the class EXPLORING ART AND GREAT ARTISTS: AN ART HISTORY TIMELINE! Many of the symbols have been used for 3000 years. Imagine.....since the time that some of the pyramids were being built! 

AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES!

KIDS AFTER SCHOOL ART! 2016

ART AROUND THE WORLD    Grades K - 5   Wednesdays  for 5 weeks     

         March 16 - April  13           3:00 - 4:30pm  

Come join us as we learn about color and design. Explore art materials while having fun learning how artists create! Students take home 2 to 3 works of art each Wednesday!

Painting inspired by Georgia O'Keefe!

Many times when an artist creates they are inspired by other artists. So we looked  at Georgia O'Keefe's painting today and were inspired to create our own painting of a flower that radiates from the center!  If you would like to create your own you can follow along with  the steps below:

• Draw a dot or circle in the middle of a canvas board or paper using pencil.
• From that circle draw lines radiating out to the edge. Make lines curved or straight with some long and some shorter.
• Draw the outside edge connecting all of the lines. As you can see in Georgia  O'Keefe's painting, that line is very curvy and forms the petals.
• Using acrylic paint (watercolor or tempera will work fine also) paint the flower. Start with the lightest colors first. Have fun picking your own colors, using the painting above as a guide.

Since we were inspired by the painting, everyone's work came out different! Please let me know  your  thoughts and have fun!

Winter Sunsets

Inspired by the beautiful winter sunsets of snow and reflected light in glowing pinks, oranges, yellows and blues, students created paintings in acrylic paint and watercolor. The black acrylic paint acts as a resist for the layered washes of watercolor. It's a great way to get some amazing results!  I hope you can try this! Tell me what you think.

• With pencil, draw the line that will separate the sky from the hill.
• Paint the house, trees, and bushes on top of the hill using black acrylic paint. It is very important to use acrylic paint and not tempera since the acrylic acts as a resist for the watercolor.
• Also paint the texture on the hill with short black brushstrokes. (Again acrylic)
• Then with watercolor paints, start with a wet wash of blue at the top. Continue down the sky towards the top of the hill using red, oranges, and yellow or any other combination.   
• Pick a color( red, orange, blue, or yellow) that will act as the reflection of the sunset on snow and create a watered down wash. In these paintings a watered down wash of red was used.
• Add any finishing touches and you're done!