Desk Lamp Still Life

 

This week students did drawings of an arrangement I set up for them to view.  They could use the media of their choice.

 

Set up

 

 

 

Alexis

Ashley

Audrey

Avery

Emma

 

 

Gianna

Jocelyn

Liam

 

 

Natalie

 

Art Show at Poulsbo Athletic Club

 

For the past month my students have had their artwork on display at Poulsbo Athletic Club in Poulsbo, Washington.  The stairway in the main part of the facility shows their fantastic work for all to see.  Boy, am I proud of them!

 

Studying Kisses

Since it's so close to Valentine's Day we drew candy kisses this week.  I passed out several pieces of silver and gold wrapped candies to each student.  We ate some right away.... no lessons in "delayed gratification" today.  We talked about what it means to "study" something.  I showed sketchbooks of famous artists and we talked about how they drew parts of something, put several incomplete sketches on one page, colored some drawings and not others and drew the item from different views.  Everyone went to work studying kisses.  Here are the results.

Christmas 2013

Each year students custom Christmas cards.  I turn their artwork into cards by scanning it into my computer and using Microsoft Publisher to create the invitation sized cards.  Students range in age from 7 to 14.  Their work is always amazing!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Audery



 Avery

 Avery2

  

 Caletta

 Emma

 Jocelyn

 Liam

 Sophia

Gianna

Suzette



Candy corn proportions

Class this week was about proportion.  Because I always promise the kids art class isn't school we used candy corn to figure our proportions.  First we ate all the broken ones.  Then we found about a dozen that were close to the same size.  We nibbled some to make them exact.  The kids had a picture of a group of ghosts and we laid out candy corn in rows to see how many "kernels" was the tallest one, the middle one, the shortest one, etc.  How many times taller was the tallest guy than the shortest guy.... in candy corn kernels of course. We used oil pastels and construction paper to create scenes of ghostly trick-or-treaters.  We started by drawing the house and the deal was.... the ghosts had to be the right proportion to the house.  Could the ghost walk up the stairs and into the house?  Too big?  Too small?  We used candy corn to measure the relationships.  Fun class, but I've had more than enough candy corn for this year!

Distance Perspective

This week in art class we talked about "distance perspective".  How things near the bottom of a picture seem closer and are almost always larger.  Things far away are closer to the top of the picture and much smaller.  Below are examples of how kids drew spooky houses and scary pumpkins.