Open Mixed Media and Pottery Class at CCAA

Our weekend class has turned out to be full of very creative kids! They are really interested in a variety of art making techniques. They have all tried out pottery both hand-building and on the wheel. Other areas they tried were Foam Etching Prints, Bookmaking, Upcycled Magazine Frames, and Peruvian Weavings. I'll post photos as we go...

Adventures of Middle School Art as a LT Sub

Life as a LTS for middle school art on a cart has it's logistic challenges as well as it's adventures. 

The students had already started sketching out their Egyptian Cartouches when I started in March. They had to either draw an Egyptian God or a human turned towards the cartouche with their name in hyroglyphics. They finished them off with details and colored pencil.

The next project was a Romare Bearden inspired paper collages in 6th Grade Art. Children were told they would get a paper bike and they could take it anywhere no matter if it was imaginary or not. The directions were to only use paper, no pencil marks showing, think about composition and use detail to create interest. For those who finished up early, children created a photo-montage from magazine cuttings in the Romare Bearden fashion.

Now we are finishing up Peruvian Weavings that we are incorporating into a background on which they think they might want to use or take their weaving. We learned how the men usually do the actual weaving, the women dye the materials and examined their wonderful patterns.

PreSchool ART! Week 4

Boy, we were BUSY today!

After we finished up our heartstring project we started a couple weeks ago with beads, we made Andy Warhol inspired handprints with marker and paint using a grid just like Andy. We also looked at Georgia O'Keeffe flowers and made our own using watercolor and printmaking together. The children also sharpened all the crayons into wax paper and we ironed them to look like stained glass window. Lastly, we had a choice to make a butterfly or bird using feathers, marker, paper and watercolor. Like I said, we were BUSY:)

Andy Warhol inspired Handprints using a grid. Markers and Paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe watercolors with Stamping

Crayon melt Stained Glass, Mixed Media Butterflies and Birds,
Heart Strings with beads and recycled TP rolls.

PreSchool ART! Week 3

Working hard on their Jasper John Numbers. They painted their age:)

Stamping with grapefruit, onions, bottle caps and a hockey puck.

Playing with the Alphabet

Pre-School ART! Week 2

Today's book, "the dot" by Peter H. Reynolds, was a big hit. We made dot paintings to go with the book. Also, we finished up our dreamcatchers from last week and started a new project to finish up next week, hearts on strings.  Check out their spectacular work.

Painting rolls for "Hearts on Strings"

PreSchool ART! (1)

Today we started PreSchool ART! at the West Chester CCAA. We read "Fiona loves the night" by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest ; illustrated by Amanda Shepherd and sang the "Lion Hunt." In the story it talks about an owl, so we did 2 owl projects and started a dream project to finish up next week. The first owl project was an owl mask, the second we learned how to draw an owl and then we etched our drawing on foam and printed them! The kids loved the printmaking because they got to use the roller and could make more than one print:) Check out their cute owls!

Mommy and Me Shamrocks

Wednesday's Mommy and Me class at Exton CCAA was all about getting ready for spring! We read "Spring things" by Bob Raczka ; illustrated by Judy Stead. Our craft was a shamrock. To make the shamrock we recycled a tp roll and magazine pages. First we cut the tp roll into 4 equal rings. 3 of the rings we covered totally with magazine cuttings that were mostly green with glue. The last ring we mushed and wrapped the magazine cuttings totally around it for the stem so it looked like a rectangle. After we had all the tp rings covered, we shaped them into hearts and a stem finally hot gluing them together to look like our photo. Lots of fun! Check out the example and make one too.