Wonderful works of some of the little ones in me and Lydia’s class. We’re oh so proud!
Age 9. Watercolor and color pencil.
Age 11. Scratch board.
Age 12. Soft pastels.
Age 9. Watercolor and color pencil.
Age 7. Oil pastel.
Asked him for his age, he replies “5 1/2″. Asked him what he liked about his picture, he says “Lemon [...]
It was really sad teaching the 2nd session of Art Camp without my buddy, Lydia!! NOO!!
It’s okay because I lived.
For the last project I decided it would have to take the whole week because I knew it’d be tedious for them. Chuck Close projects has had a huge impact on me so I wanted to [...]
I realized that I didn’t post the artwork done by my kids back in May. I regret that I have nothing for June because I forgot to take pictures. Oops..
I had them pick either cherry blossoms, koi fishes or the Taj Mahal for their project.
Wow, I’m still getting use to the fact that they’re just [...]
A couple weeks ago, we had a great art show for the kids! The recital hall was so pretty because it had our little artists’ work everywhere. It should have all been left up there and no it’s not because we were too lazy to take them down.. ok maybe we were.
(Sorry for the tiny [...]
For April, our theme was fruit.
The first project was to draw a bowl of fruit with oil pastel. These came out so well because the students instead of correcting the shape of their bowls and such, I let it be.
The second project was a study of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. This was of course a difficult project [...]
For the month of March, my little artists did projects that reflected art from the past.
For the first project, I wanted to have the students do something from prehistoric times. So they did a drawing of a bison using soft pastels and charcoal. The bison they copied was one of the many cave paintings from [...]
Monday class is the only class I teach by myself and I’ve been having fun coming up with ideas especially for self-portraits. The first set is Pablo Picasso inspired and the second set is René Magritte inspired. Both assignments are handled with oil pastels. (How messy!)
Dylan, age 7:
Dylan’s cracks me up and it’s not in [...]
