Friday Evening Art- ages 8-12 Fun Christmas Trees!

We looked online for some inspiration and the students used what they saw to use patterns and shapes to make these fun trees. They used 11x14 inch stretched canvas and marker.

Happy Thanksgiving! - ages 7-9

We painted our backgrounds and then used some strips of paper to draw fall colored patterns. The strips were glued on the prepared paper to make turkey tails. This was a fun colorful project!

Panorama, teen class

Just a challenge for the teen class to work in a different format still thinking about composition.
4x24 inches acrylic on canvas board

State Maps- ages 10-12

I replaced my car atlas (yes I still use paper maps) and thought we could do an art project with the old one. Each student picked a state/place and modge podged it on to a board. Then they had to decide what they liked about each place and create a painting using the map as a background.

Friday Owl Project, ages 8-12

Sometimes I offer a friday evening class where we do a step by step project and eat pizza and just have a nice time after a long week at school.
This was one of the projects that I wanted to share. I got the inspiration online and each of the students made it their own. What fun!

Picasso's Three Musician Paper Collage, ages 10-12

This is a favorite project that the students always do a fabulous job!
Cut paper on 11x17 inch board.

4 Words, Teen class

This was a thoughtful project. The students wrote 5 adjectives on a small piece of paper and put them in a hat/box. Then we mixed them up and they each took turns picking one till they were all gone. They could throw one word away which would leave them with 4. They had 4, 5x7 inch wooden raised panels to paint what each word might feel like in an image... but the catch was to use a common theme. We had weather, rain, lightbulbs, silhouettes and arrows... I will post them as they finish but here is the beginning.  Some of the words were stormy, loud, frenzy, luminous, hopeful, peaceful, mundane, utopian... Yes, this was a challenge with some great ideas in the end.

Contour and Shaded Pumkins and an Apple, ages 10-12

We looked at photos of pumpkins and talked about how to start a complicated drawing. We also noted that things get smaller in the distance. Using contour lines they drew their "map" of shapes and then chose three to color and shade.

Adult Class Woven Watercolor

I don't usually post the adult projects, but this one is too good not to share! It was a great project to do after summer break to loosen up a bit. We drew and painted two of the same image without too much worry if it matched up in size or color. Then we cut, wove and glued them on card stock. It was nice to see all the ways they played with backgrounds and some had a checkerboard effect, some were loose and impressionistic and all were so clever. I could imagine silk scarves or vintage fabric made from these. You can link on the names to see what these artists are up to.

Maria

Wanda

Harvest Moon, ages 7-9

This is my example of the harvest moon paper project that the students used as inspiration for their own.
We took cake cardboard rounds (you could use clean pizza rounds too) to use as our moon. A little neon yellow marker gave the moon a bright color. Then the students made a list of things they could use in their projects and cut/glued them. Note the shy raccoon looking from behind the corn stalks.

Loose Watercolor and Ink Birds- teen class

Most of my students, ages 10 through adult have done this project. They all turned out so wonderful, even thought it was sometimes hard to paint ourtside of the lines. I am sharing some of the teen class work and mine at the end.