Matisse Apples....

This week we took a look at apples for our subject! 

We also looked at some work by Matisse for inspiration! 

We focused on primary colors again this week using paints!

Archiving Your Artist's Work

As a mom and an art teacher I am keenly aware of the amount of artwork that comes home through the year. While I'd like to save every thing that my own kids do, all the paper can add up after a while. I ran across a wonderful app called Artkive the other day and I thought I'd pass it on. The app allows you to photograph your child's artwork, tag it with a date/year/class etc, share it with any family or friends, and best of all create books with their artwork! It is a great way to archive the progress your child has made through the year. http://www.artkiveapp.com/

Mondrian Primary Colors

Hooray for a back to school and back to art class! This week we are discussing primary colors and taking a look at work by Mondrian for inspiration! Students did a great job cutting squares and rectangles to complete the project!

The upper level became architects and created buildings of their own using a straight edge. We took a look at the work of Mondrian as well as that of Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry

Hooray For Back to School!!

Just a few more days until we are all back at school and creating, critiquing, and collaborating in art class!

Enjoy the last few hot days of summer!

Looking forward to many new things this year in art!

Fish Prints!

My son has found a love of fishing this summer. I do not share the same desire but I appreciate his interest and have decided to encourage his exploration of the subject through art. Our last visit to the library we found some fish books. Jangles: A Big Fish Story by David Shannon is a wonderful tale of the big fish that gets away over and over again. David Shannon illustrates in a magical way that only he can. Yesterday after we read the book I pulled out my rubber fish and we did a few fish prints on t-shirts. Then we fish printed paper, scraps of cloth and just about anything that we could :)  Another great fishing book for inspiration is H is for Hook: An Alphabet Fish Book by Judy Young

Happy 4th of July....

Some coffee filter art for the holiday.....

Have a wonderful long weekend!

Dinosaur Days

Today was a Dino Day! I found fun little excavation kits with little tools included. The kids worked on digging and brushing out tiny bones. Then I took a bag of rubber fossils that I bought and put them around the yard for the kids to search for. After all of that we needed a snack and book. So I read the book Dig Those Dinosaurs by Lori Haskins. 
Happy Summer!