ART for 1170

Yes, I've been busy. Haven't all of us??? Well I did have a fantastic trip to San Diego to see my brother (he's a teacher too, science) and his family and to see my good friend Susan in Las Vegas AND.... GOT ENGAGED!!!  and some time for Bubble Soccer which I highly suggest for your next staff outing.   Okay back to work and blogging art stuff.

  Not much time for a detailed explanation but I saw this idea on  zamoranoarts.blogspot.com and thought it was an interesting idea on radial design. There are great step by step instructions on the site.  I just love how they turned out. After the first day of classes only 3/4 of the students were finished but they were so excited that many took them home to finish and we will add to the wall as they come in.

Students studied the faces of Laurel Birch inspired cats and gave them a personal twist that I love.  They started by outlining their cat in white oil pastel and the next class gave them unique colors.

I just love her earphones! This is a great lesson on Picasso and making mistakes/ from Beautiful Oops. The third grade students are encouraged to explore and attempt different eye, nose, mouth and ear shapes before selecting the one(s) that they choose to use on their artwork.   I'm a huge fan of craypas, except when they end up on the floor.

I wanted to share this beautiful piece of pie with a clay plate that was made by a very talented seventh grader. She experimented with sgraffito and using pasta on the plate. Jillian has helped me with the camp for the past three years by assisting  the students. I think she has HUGE potential!!  She experimented with sgraffito and using pasta on the plate.

This year was the sixth year of summer clay camp. I decided to add an afternoon camp for my students who have moved on to the middle school, junior and senior high school. It was great to see these students push projects. I have more awesome art in the kiln right now but wanted to add some pictures now. A special shout out to the Clarkston Optimists who generously provide seven scholarships for Clarskton Students to attend various art camps including mine. Normally I discourage logos and emblems but I just couldn't resist this Sparty! Go Green

So happy to say goodbye to the winter snow with these beautiful flowers. The students looked at Van Gogh's sunflowers to get inspiration and then used Craypas to create them.