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.

Shading Review

We are back in class!  Recently students reviewed pencils and shading tools.

Here are our results.

Kitsap County Fair 2013

It's Kitsap County Fair time!!!!  The kids did fantastic and I'm so proud of them I can hardly stand it.  Everyone got ribbons and there were several special awards.... and... yes....  one of the students received a Best in Show!    How cool is that?!  

Nice going, Audrey

 Cool, Emma!

 Nice job, Emma!

 superb job, Emma!  This pic is one of my favorites.
Easy to see why the judges thought it was worthy of the "Special Rosettes"

 Nice job, Kalina

 Amazing pastel, Kalina.... easy to see why the judges loved it

 Beautiful job, Marissa!  You really deserved these awards. A white dog with a "black" pencil is the very hardest thing you can do!

 Really nice job, Natalie!  You worked hard and it shows.

 Nice going, Suzette!

Best in Show

Suzette... Oh my gosh!  This was so well earned!

Great job, Suzette!