Empty Bowls Fund Raiser Paper and Clay Bowls!

I just L-O-V-E these bowls we made with our middle school students. Some students made paper maché bowls shown on the right and painted them with watercolors in cool designs while others made small clay bowls  on the left and demonstrated their slip trailing techniques on them. Miss Ann and I both made the large bowls and serving platter in the center to raffle off to our staff so we could donate money as well as the bowls to such a great event in our community. The Empty Bowls organization is in communities across America and more. They hold events that help raise money for our hungry and give away a bowl to those who gave as a remembrance. Here's a link if your school or organization is interested in participating. http://www.emptybowls.net/

Middle School ART!

In 6th Grade we have been concentrating mostly on RED CLAY! Students have made slab toad houses, experimented with underglazing techniques on small bowls, made a winter plate and even explored their heraldry with colored pencil and calligraphy.

7th Grade has 2 projects a quarter. They have a choice between a food or animal sculpture in white clay and also complete a painting with oil pastel and watercolor to go with their sculpture.






8th Grade Traditional Class has been busy these first two semesters. Projects included portraits, still life drawings and foil drawings, printmaking etchings and finally a sewn marblized paper book.

8th Grade Sculpture class have been experimenting with cardboard, wire and found object sculptures.

Middle School Art Projects 2013-14

8th Grade Sculpture from found objects

Pre-School Young Rembrandts

Pre-School Young Rembrandts Program was a great experience for these little people. We just went step by step using shapes they know and love together. They were so excited that their drawings looked like the animals we were trying to create! Afterwards we used crayons to color our creations. Aren't they wonderful! Yeah Preschoolers:)

Middle School Art LTS Adventures

I've had the pleasure of teaching young men and women at a local middle school since February this year. Here are some of the projects we created.

Warhol's Ads to Art - One of my favorite projects to do with young people. This group was the 8th grade Traditional Art Class. Instructions were to take a grocery item and make it into art while rotating, repeating and resizing. We also worked some color theory into the project as well!

Let's Play Clay!

Our class had four wonderfully talented young ladies ranging in age from Kindergarten to Fourth Grade. We definitely played with clay and had lots of fun for this 9-week course at Chester County Art Association! Students explored all kinds of handbuilding techniques. Check out their works below:)

Fall Session 2

Young Rembrandts Fall Session 2

This session we have one Kindergartener, six First Graders and one Third Grader. Aren't their drawings fabulous?!