Spring Art Club Begins

Our new session of Art Club began on Thursday, January 22. We are fully booked but only had 12/15 show up for our first class. I will try to talk to the missing 3 artists to make sure they will be joining us or I will be contacting the students on our waiting list. So if you were missing please come see me right away.

Our first class back we went over the basics of drawing faces and drawing the basic body . There is a formula to make sure that your proportions look natural. 

Your eyes are at the 1/2 line, the nose goes onto the 1/4 line, and the mouth touches the 1/8 line as a start.

Then the whole body has a similar method for proportioning. By using the "head" as a guide.

Most female bodies are 6-7 heads in height and aprox. 2 heads wide.

After our warm up sketches, we started our first project. We will need all 15 (myself being #16) to complete our project in order for it to look like the collage I'm hoping for. This is the inspiration for this project:

Each student was assigned their own type of candy to draw for our "Candy Collage". The ideas were to enlarge the logo/packaging to run off the page. Each student designed their 6X6 piece of paper and then drew their candy. Most of the artists were finished drawing by the end of the class. Our next class we will colour our designs just with pencil crayons, but we will try to make sure we have shadows, shading and highlights. 

As this is our first week back I did not assign a weekly sketchbook assignment, but have asked that all the students decorate the covers of their sketchbooks to make is look as unique as they are. If any artist would like to put the plastic cover over their covers, it is available at Dollaramma for $1. It can be found with the stationary department, and is called "Book Protector". If you would like me to put the cover on for you just bring the roll into class with you, and I will help. Other things you can use would be packing tape or you can leave it as is. It's up to the artists how they decorate their covers. They can draw on it, paste pics to it....etc. Just be as creative as you can be.

We also have a Pinterest board that will show where my ideas and project come from. If you are on Pinterest you are totally welcome to follow this board to see what we are up to weekly. I won't show anything that is coming up....only what we have done in the classroom. 

Here is the link: St. Mary Art Club Pintest Board

The Winter Art Show

The St. Mary Art Club presented The Winter Art Show on Thursday, January 15th. And we had a terrific turn out. Thank you to everyone that attended our event. Here are a few photos from our event:

Multi-Tecnique One Drawing

Oil Resists

Water Colour Koi and Turtles

 Graffiti Names & Sketchbooks 

 A closer look at our Sketchbooks

Paper Mache Masks

Rachel's Oil Painting

I'm sorry to say that I do not have any photos of our clay snowmen. And being a papparazzi that I am, this completely shocks me. If anyone happened to take any photos of them I would love for you to email them to me.

Our new session begins on Thursday, January 22 3:30-5pm. I have 10 returning artists and 5 new ones. Which means that not only is our class full but we have a few names on a waiting list.

I can't wait to see all my little artists that are ready to learn....

Art Show

We just wanted to invite all students and parents to come see us:

St. Mary Art Club Presents

The Winter Art Show

Thursday, January 15th

1:00pm - 6:00pm

Join us in the Art Room for snacks and beverages. Come see all the beautiful art work the kids have been working on.

December 4th

We only have one more week to go. I'm still in talks with Mrs. G about a possible Art Show so we can show off all the hard work you have done in the past 12 weeks. 

Last week we got straight to work on our water colour turtles and fish this week. I think we should have those completed very soon. And our homework of "Selfies" turned out awesome. You all put a lot of work into them and they look fabulous.

This was my sample to show the kids a few ideas to get them thinking creatively and outside the basic masks they've seen before. I made a "Night Owl" mask, which explains the blue colour.

Here are some of the masks that have been completed so far:

From the Fab Five group:

From my Big Hero 6 group: 

(who had to add something extra to the base mask that goes a long with their theme)

They all looks fabulous. I'm very proud of all the hard work that you guys have done. 

Let's finish up any unfinished projects in our last class. And for those of you that have all projects completed you will be able to make a clay project.

Don't forget your sketchbook homework for this week: design your own "original" lego person. Don't forget to trace the base design into your sketchbook first. See you for our last class.

November 13

Today's starter drawings were koi fish and turtles.

And these will also be our sketchbook assignments this week. Please draw both koi fish as well as turtles on your page. Make sure that your page is full of both. Colouring is optional but as always completely welcome! This will be our subject matter for our up coming water colour projects.

The masks are also still in progress, and will be finished during the beginning of class next week.

Photos will follow hopefully by next week.

November 6

Sorry for the last minute post from our last class. It's amazing how fast a 5 day weekend can go.....

Last week we started our class off with a shadow drawing tutorial.

Then we drew a few apples using the same techniques. We've talked almost every class about shading and the importance it can bring to every piece of art work. 

We started practicing pressure of our pencils as well as adding high lights and low lights. I took everyones sketchbooks and doodled shapes in them. Our sketchbook assignment is to colour each space with a colour and ensure that you use high lights and shadows in each space. This will lead into future projects that are coming up.

Other than our beginning drawing, we worked on our mask assignments again. 

Next class will be our last class to finish up our masks.

 I will also be taking photos of the masks as well as the kids wearing their masks for our blog. 

October 30th

This was a very full and productive class this week. We started off with a review quiz, winners got first choice of mask blanks for our next project. Some of the questions we asked were:

What is a Hue + White called in Colour Theory?

Tint

What is a Hue + Black called in Colour Theory?

Shade

If Red, Blue & Yellow are Primary Colours, then what are Green, Orange, & Purple?

Secondary Colours

What is the Second Favourite Colour in the United States?

Green

These were all discussed during our third class when we went over Colour Theory.

I also went over a few Famous Paintings to see the students familiarity with Art History.

Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh

Mickey Mouse - Andy Warhol

Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci

Tiger at Dusk - Robert Bateman

I think this is something we are going to continue to do every class as we are surrounded by amazing art every day.

After our quiz we started to work on our masks. My Fab 5 group started to paint the background colour on their masks. My Big Hero 6 group added the 3D portion to their masks, whether it be a beak, a pop up, or a level change. These have the week to dry and we will paint up and glue the extras on this coming week.

Our Homework this week was more of a doodle & graffiti drawing of our names.

I have asked the students to doodle a different theme into each letter. I do apologize to the students that have very long names....sorry guys.

Here is an example of what I'm looking for:

Mrs. Macre Art Class was my inspiration for this assignment. Have fun with it. And don't forget to try and make it "Out of the Box" somehow.