Jessica's "Daily Affirmation"

Happy New Year!!!! One last post before it will be 2011! This has nothing to do with Art or Education... but it is so stinkin' cute... I thought it would help you start off the New Year with some positive thinking! I hope you have a wonderful New Years celebration tonight- just think.. after this weekend, back to school!

Everybody loves a Parody!

 

Materials:

- 9" x 12" drawing paper

- pencil

- colored pencils

- light boxes or windows

- Mona Lisa and/or American Gothic Reference Sheets

Crazy Camouflage

Materials:
- Tempera Paint
- Paintbrushes
- Hands
- White Drawing Paper
- Liu Bolin examples

Art Wars

So I've never actually submitted anything on this site, but I figured I'd share for you that have been in an art slump and need some inspiration. Art-wars.com conducts contests for artists for money in which the artist must read the requirements for a new contest, produce an original piece of art, and upload it to the site. More information is on the site if you're interested. 

Happy Art Making! : )

Blazing Banyan Tree

Materials:
- white drawing paper
- black tempera paint
- paint brushes
- pencils
- oil pastels

Ceramic Christmas Ornaments

 

Materials:

- clay

- glaze (unless you use air dry, substitute with acrylic paint)

- brushes

- ribbon

Salvador Deli

 

I saw this funny cartoon posted by Phyl on There's a Dragon in my Art Room... thought I'd share with you, too! Enjoy : ). 

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays from my family to yours. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and a terrific New Year. We need some well deserved rest these next few days. I hope you are surrounded with lots of friends, family and love. See you in the next year! : )

Create your own Pollock

Fun little website to emulate your own Pollock artwork. Drag your mouse across the page to "drip" paint and click to change colors. Would be a good introduction to Pollock and preliminary assignment.

Jackson Pollock

Mandala Maker

Quick and easy website to introduce making mandalas and radial symmetry. Would be a great preliminary activity.

Mandala Maker

Dowce

My Block Posters page sent me to a new page, Dowce!, and I found it so useful I had to share this one, too! It's a free program you can download to easily create screen captures. It seems as if this program is just for Windows, but I use a Mac and frequently use their screen capture feature which operates in the same way.

Screen captures are a nice tool for fellow bloggers or any tutorials you may want to show your students.

Block Posters

A great resource to enlarge images for the art room or for personal use - and it's FREE! Click on the link below the image to see.

http://www.blockposters.com/default.aspx

Christmas Card Wreaths

Materials:
- Christmas Cards
- card stock
- scissors
- glue
- ribbon