Photomobile

Another motivational post for your creative side! Saw this on the Splart Blog:

http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/amlp#

A million photographs. 

One cross-country exhibition. 

Sign up to receive a disposable camera from Art House, choose a theme that inspires you, and share your interpretation with the world.

Anyone - from anywhere in the world - can participate in the project. More information on the site, seems pretty cool.

 

Some Photos to Share

This school year I was moved into a new classroom. When I entered the room during the summer, I was overwhelmed with how empty and bare everything was. I knew I immediately needed to add some color and thought having my students make some permanent artwork would be the perfect opportunity.

These were paintings done by my 5th grade class. The students were broken up into groups of 7 or 8 and recreated a famous work using a grid method. We practiced the whole grid technique prior to their final painting. Check out the results which now hang in my room!

Snowflake Impressions

Materials:
- Snowflake tracers
- Tagboard
- Pencils
- Scissors
- Chalk Pastels
- Cotton Balls
- 12" x 12" Drawing Paper

Sunday Comic

Some humor before I begin a big clay week. Courtesy of Adventures of an Art Teacher. Enjoy!

Radial Symmetry Prints

Materials:
- Paper (one 5" x 5" for each child, one 10" x 10" for each child)
- Pencils
- Scratchfoam (or styrofoam meat trays)
- Printmaking ink
- Brayers
- Printmaking trays

Bubble Print Snowmen

Materials:
- Bubble Wrap
- White Tempera Paint
- Paintbrush
- Construction Paper
- Scissors
- Glue

Micrography Portrait

Materials:
- Student Photographs
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Fine Point Sharpie
- Extra Fine Point Sharpie
- White Drawing Paper

Mini Louise

 

Materials:

- Craft Sticks
- Black and White Paint (Acrylic works best)
- Assortment of "knick knacks"
- Glue

Kandinsky Circles

Matches my background, tee hee

Materials:

- Tempera Paint

- Paintbrushes

- White Drawing Paper

- An assortment of Construction Paper

- Scissors

- Circle Tracers

- Pencils

- Glue

- Kandinsky References

Sunday Comic

Courtesy of Phyl, enjoy!

Happy New Year

It's 10:00 pm and the 1st of January is almost officially over. I just thought this was too cool not to share, though.

Artist Harwinder Singh Gill displays a special new year message he carved into the tips of colored pencils in Amritsar, India

Gingerbread Friend

 

Materials:

- brown construction paper

- white tempera paint

- paintbrushes

- scissors

- glue

- M&Ms, JuJu Fruits, mini marshmallows

- pom poms, fuzzy wire, cotton balls, jewels, buttons

- The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth

Warm Color Cool Color Weavings

 

Materials:

- (2) 9" x 12" white drawing paper

- pencils

- colored pencils

- sharpie marker

- scissors

- glue/ glue stick