After our study of Hokusai’s “The Wave off Kanazawa”, we did fish printing. In this project we drew fish on styrofoam sheets. We then cut the fish out, rolled on ink with brayers and printed them. Many students doubted they could draw the fish, but they all did and did a fabulous job! This is […]
In day two of Modern Masters, we learned about the art of Katsushika Hokusai, a famous Japanese painter and printmaker. We began by reading “The Great Wave” by Veronique Massenot and Bruno Pilorget. We then set out to create our own waves using black oil pastel, puck tempera, and white tempera for the ocean spray. […]
After our project based on Diego Rivera’s flower vendor painting, we made tissue paper flowers. Everyone made three flowers to take home. Great fun!
On our first day of the “Modern Masters” workshop, we learned about Diego Rivera. We started out by reading Mike Venezia’s book about Rivera. I love his series, “Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists!” He throws in enough humor with just the right amount of factual information to keep the kids listening. : ) […]
The kids blew me away with the last project of “Art, American Style.” We drew hoodoos from Bryce Canyon. Hoodoos are spire like rock formations. We drew them in black oil pastel and colored them with chalk pastels. We talked about layering colors and blending. These are absolutely stunning! If I didn’t see it with […]
Navajo indians are famous for their woven rugs. This project was just perfect after our cowboy outlaws. We used burlap and yard to sew a pattern. This was the first sewing experience for most of my students. They caught on fast. We then glued our mini rugs on colored paper. The next day, we created […]
For day two of “Art, American Style,” we headed south and back in time. We drew and painted outlaws, aged our paper with liquid watercolor, and created “Wanted” posters. I had the “Wanted” sign pre-printed and aged to save time. I love how these turned out. What fabulous characters. Some students told me they went […]
For the first day of “Art, American Style,” we drew and painted the Statue of Liberty. We drew with Sharpie markers and painted with watercolor. This was a challenge to draw, but everyone did such a great job. I gave them the freedom to do the background how ever they wanted. We also read “The […]
The last project for “Crawl, Wiggle, Fly” was a bee print. We first traced a hexagon template to make a honeycomb background. Then we painted the background using pan watercolor. We used foam sheets and sticky foam sheets to create the bee printing plates. I provided templates for the body parts for those that wanted […]
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