April 9th

Having Tumbleweed Portraits and Photography come into the classroom was a blast. Now I get to see if my little artists learned anything from our guest artist. The assignment was to take a photo keeping in mind the rule of thirds that Angela taught us.

Here is Angela's example just for a quick reminder:

Here are a few photos that I received.

Rule of Thirds Photo Challenge

Here are the photo challenge winners:

Here is my photo for this challenge as well:

There will be more photos from the challenge to post at a later date.

As promised I have taken photos of our latest projects and can now post a few of the finished products. These are our finished Funko Pop cans:

Funko Pop! Art Cans

The Evil Queen from Snow White & the Seven Dwarves

Thumper from Bambi

Scrump from Lilo & Stitch

Cake from Adventure Time

Cogsworth from Beauty & the Beast

Bruce from Finding Nemo

Dory from Finding Nemo

I'm very proud of how our second project is turning out. The cans all look so cute. So far there are 7 artists complete and have moved on to the wire word project. There are 4 more artists that are very close to finishing as well. Artists that are not done their cans will not be able to do the wire word project at this time but there may still be time before the end of this session to do one. 

Next week I will post the pics of last week's sketchbook assignment of the 4 Easter Detail pics as well as this week's sketchbook assignment. Which is for the artists to design an original super hero logo. It has to be an original symbol, nothing I could've seen before. Here are some well known super hero logos just in case you need some inspiration for a starting point.

April 23 there will not be Art Club.

 Due to unforeseen circumstances there has been a scheduling conflict with a dance competition in St. Albert. So we will continue with Art Club again on April 30. 

April 2

This week I would like to start by thanking Angela from Tumbleweed Portraits and Photography for coming into our classroom to teach us about the "Rule of Thirds" in composing art as well as photography. 

Angela is a very talented photographer. She takes all kinds of amazing photos. She specializes in weddings, newborns, and families. Angela also does amazing mini sessions for Valentine's Day as well as Easter. If you are interested in checking out her photos, check out both her Facebook page as well as her portfolio on her web page.

Tumbleweed Portraits and Photography Facebook Page

Tumbleweed Portraits and Photography Web Page

Now for a unique challenge in honour of our guest artist. There will be two assignments this week. In addition to our regular sketchbook assignment (to be revealed later) I have also asked you to take one simple photo that follows the "rule of thirds" that Angela taught you this week. You have two ways to submit this photo, you can bring it with you to class next week or you can email it to me at :

stonesinc@yahoo.com

Here is an example of Angela's work that shows you an example of the "Rule of thirds".

So let's talk about this week's winners of our "morphing" sketchbook assignment winners. 

Gryffindor's Winner

Time for a Change

Ravenclaw's Winner

Pepsi the Dog

And here is my "morphing" sketchbook assignment

My Sundae Hat

There will be a change in groups for this upcoming week. I had separated the group into 2 houses but have since changed my mind. We will now have 3 houses that will have a chance to win the sketchbook assignments of the week. Please Welcome Hufflepuff this upcoming week. There will be bit of a change up from the original two houses in order to accommodate the third house. The new house teams will be announced during our next class.

Now on to our sketchbook assignment for this week. I have asked the students to divide their sketchbook page into four equal squares. In each square I would like you to draw a cropped in detail version of something that you consider to be "Easter" related. Now I caution that you try not to draw something like Instagram ( I know you will be on Instagram this 4 day weekend) but unless you only Instagram during Easter then it doesn't show an Easter theme. You can chose the basics and draw a bunny, chick, eggs, etc. or you can draw something a little more original that you did for this Easter weekend.

Here is an example that was my inspiration for this sketchbook assignment:

However your sketchbook should be Easter themed!

I will be posting pics of some of the finished Pop! cans next week. Check back to see them soon.

March 19

I do apologize that I did not update the blog over Spring Break. So I will be posting two weeks on the blog but I prefer to post them separately. I will also post blog updates on my Facebook page as well. 

Our sketchbook assignment was to draw an object in the shape of the letter it starts with. Here are this week's winners as well as my sample.

Gryffindor's Winner

"R" for Rapunzel

"Z" is for Zebra

(but also "E" is for elephant, "B" is for buffalo, "R" is for rhino, and "A" is for Anteater)

My example for the students

"J" is for Jellyfish

I didn't have an official plan for class as we were suppose to have a guest artist come in and talk to the class. But there was a mix up and we rescheduled for April 2. So we just continued to work on our projects that were in progress.

So we got a few more "Pop" can's finished this week, and a few more students have started to work on their wire words. 

There was no regular class on March 26 as the school was on Spring Break. So back to class again on April 2 with our guest artist. 

Since the students had extra time with Spring Break week off I assigned a sketchbook assignment that was a little harder. This week's assignment is to "morph" two items together. Sounds hard, unless you think about the two items as simple shapes. If both items have similar shapes they will "morph" together a lot easier. Here are two examples I showed in class for this sketchbook assignment:

Mango & Gorilla

Cow & Strawberry

I can't wait to see what you come up with!