Wire Sculpture Athletes, ages 7 - 11

This was so much fun! Wire and pipe cleaner sculptures on wooden bases.

Pencil Pet Portraits, age 9 - 11

The students used pencils, blenders and erasers to do pet portraits paying attention to shadows and fur texture.

Cupcakes, ages 7 - 9

Just a fun cupcake project using simple shapes and step by step directions.

Fairy Tale Posters, ages 7 - 9

The students chose a fairy tale and listed some of the elements of the story on paper. Then they put those elements on paper and colored their posters. Can you guess the stories?

Action Figures, ages 7-9

We talked about how to show action... how to draw the figures and how things could look like it could be coming off the page.  These are done in oil pastel on 18x24 inch bristol board.

Pencil Coke Bottles, ages 8 to teens

We started our January classes with a back to basics pencil class. We did some value studies, shapes and then coke bottles for smooth texture and animals portraits for a fur texture. The Coke bottles are posted below. 18x24 inch light gray cardstock

One Painting on Glass, teen class

We painted on glass. This process needed planning. We drew the design on tracing paper and traced the back side on the back of the glass with marker. Then painted on that same side taking care to keep track of what color will be painted on top of the other colors. Turn it over and pop it in a frame to see the design. I oversimplified the process here, but you should get the general idea. And I also only got to photograph one of them. We tried to keep a winter, stylized Santa theme.