April 14

This week was the time to finish our silhouette paintings. Here are the artists painting up a storm....a little nervous but they are looking amazing.

Next week I will post a few of the finished paintings.

Sketchbook Winners:

This week the artists had to draw their favourite movie scene....but draw it like a 6 year old.

Here are the winners:

Team Emma:

From Disney's Up

Team Rumplestiltskin:

From Disney/Pixar Monster's Inc

Team Hook:

 From Disney/Pixar Monster's Inc

Team Regina:

From Disney's Up

I'm surprised that the artists could pick any movie to draw and the winners drew the same 2 movies, even I drew Monster's Inc. But it's no shock how much I love Disney, and my daughter looked like Boo when she was that age.

This week's sketchbook assignment is to draw a teddybear. Last week we drew like a 6 year old, so that meant little details. So this week I want to see lots of details, the fuzzy of the fur, or the stitching on the leg, or even the detail of the button eyes for examples.

Next week we will be finishing up our paintings, and start to polishing off our unfinished projects for our upcoming art show in June.

April 7

Welcome Back Artists! I hope you all had many creative days while on Spring Break. Now it's time to get back to work, as there is still lots to do before our art show in a few months.

Today we started the first part of our "Paint Nite" paintings, and we will finish them up next class. Our goal today was to complete the ombre background of our paintings and then to decide the composition and animal before next week.

We started by picking 2 colours (1 dark and 1 light) and then with a wet brush and long smooth strokes to blend them into the desired ombre look. Here are how some of them turned out.

I can't wait to see them finished.

Sketchbook homework this week was "What's in your bag?" Here are this week's winners:

Team Hook

A School Backpack

Team Rumplestiltskin

A Softball Bag

Team Regina

A Very Full School Backpack

Next week's sketchbook assignment is to draw your favourite movie scene as a 6 year old child. My inspiration for this assignment came from the board game Scene it! They have a group of movies drawn in "child's play" style that are displayed on a giant fridge. If you need inspiration maybe play the game with your family this weekend!! It's our family favourite. See you all next week!