Turkey Feathers

Materials:
- Construction Paper
- Scissors
- Glue / Gluesticks
- Feather Tracer

How Cool Is This Dad?!

I just read this neat article about a tattoo artist father who colors in his child's artwork! They are pretty amazing! You can read the article here.

Chuck Close Thumbprint Portraits

Materials:

- Tempera Paint

- Paintbrushes

- Two Sheets of White Drawing Paper Per Student

- Picture References (optional)

Pattern Collage

Materials:
- Construction Paper
- Scissors
- Glue

Sunday Comic

Unfortunately... it's not a humorous one... I've seen this floating around Pinterest and Facebook:

Which brings me to this video clip that I saw over the weekend:

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Magazine Reed Collages

Materials:

- Magazines

- Wooden Skewers

- Glue Sticks

- Glue Bottles

- Scissors

- Canvas (or hard another hard surface)

- Pencil

- Paint

- Paintbrushes

Teaching Mondrian (and a little more)

Materials:
- White Drawing Paper
- White Paper Strips
- Black Construction Paper
- Black Paper Strips
- Primary Colored Tempera Paint
- Secondary Colored Oil Pastels
- Glue
- Scissors

Monster Collabo

Materials:
- Drawing Paper
- Crayons / Markers / Colored Pencils
- Clay
- Paint / Glaze
- 2 groups to collabo with (preferably one older, one younger)

The Very Busy Spider

Materials:

- Construction Paper

- Drawing Paper

- Black Crayon

- Scissors

- Glue

- Tempera Paint

- Daubers

- Spider Head and Body Tracers (optional)

- Googly eyes (optional)

- The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

Low fire glaze vs. High fire glaze

So what's the difference?

I usually use high fire glaze, but in the past years when I've networked with local art teachers, they've been turning me onto trying low fire glaze. So I've been trying to phase out my stock of high fire and try the low fire.. but there are some things I just wanted to make sure are correct from my understanding:

1. Low fire glaze has a more painterly quality to it?
2. Can low fire glazed pieces touch each other in the kiln?
3. Low fire glaze can be mixed like paint?
4. Low fire glaze can be used on high fire clay?

If someone could help clarify / verify these statements, I'd really appreciate it! I already told my students they'd be my little guinea pigs for this glaze I bought, but I just wanted to have somewhat of an idea of what might happen when firing. Thanks for any input in advance!

Sunday Comic

Enjoy : - )

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Paper Plate Tree Weavings

Materials:
- Chinet Paper Plates
- Pencil
- Tempera Paint
- Yarn
- Scissors

Shaded Pumpkins

Materials:
- Oil pastels
- Drawing Paper
- Background Construction Paper (optional)