April Showers bring May Flowers, Friday Art Class ages 8-12

My Friday classes are quite fun. We have pizza, do an art project, share some jokes and riddles... It is a great way to finish the week. This last friday I gave the students a choice of what type of flower painting they would like to do. All of them are so nice. Welcome Spring!

Cut paper Sandwiches- teen class

We have done this project with the younger classes as well. My spin on this is that the students had to add something unexpected to the sandwiches. Can you find the unexpected... toothbrush, fruit, pencil...

Another student explored Yupo paper for watercolor and did this modern Mona Lisa. Yupo paper is a plastic type surface that has quite a learning curve but fun once you know what the paper will do and what it can't do.

Pointillism Chick, ages 7-10

We took some simple shaped hatching chicks (and one bunny) and used pencil erasers to stamp/paint a pointillism effect. I had been thinking about doing this technique for a long time and this was the perfect project for the students to try it! Sharpie and acrylic paint on wrapped canvas.

Easter Eggs, ages 7-12

We looked at some books on Ukrainian eggs and talked about the divisions and designs used.
The students then chose their own patterns and colors and painted these lovely paintings to welcome spring.

Watercolor Hummingbirds, age 9-12

I like to show the students examples of stained glass (I use a Tiffany book) before I introduce them to this watercolor project. They get to see complex subjects broken down to simple shapes. The glass has many colors and direction in each piece that together makes an interesting whole. So the students drew their hummingbirds and flowers breaking them down to simple shapes and then outlined in sharpie. Then they made many paint puddles and worked wet on wet to paint each "piece of glass".
Another favorite!

Color Wheel Opposites, Teen Class

The students picked a famous painting and painted a copy using colors that are opposites on the color wheel.  So if there was a yellow flower it would have to be painted purple since that is the color opposite yellow on the color wheel. These all turned out great!