December 30

Our last sketchbook assignment for this session of Art Club was to draw a tree. Now I was hoping that the artists would "think outside the box" as this is always what I encourage as an artist. And they did a variety of different ideas. Here's a photo of all the submissions:

Here are the 3 winners:

Factionless:

Erudite:

Amity:

Now for your next sketchbook challenge.

Draw a new invention or machine.

December 28th

So here was our next scrapbooking assignment, 

"Draw a Book" challenge

Here are the winners:

And to go with the scrapbooking challenge is a new Christmas break challenge for you:

Draw something hot and cold at the same time

December

Wow did the month of December just fly by. I truly meant to post on the blog but never seemed to find the time. So let's play a little catch up. 

Here is the "Draw something Layered" challenge:

Factionless:

And the Factionless Winner is:

Erudite:

And the Erudite Winner is:

Amity:

And the Amity Winner is:

I thought this time I would show you everyone's drawings that I have to pick my winners from, then show you my choice for the winner. In the "layered" challenge we saw everything from layered hair, to layered burgers, to layered wedding dress and layered cake. Great job from all artists.

And somehow I forgot to post our Draw a non-human eye challenge. So here they are by special request.

Winners:

(I seem to be missing a winner, which could be why I didn't post them before)

Ok for any of my Art Club artists reading this here is Christmas break challenge#1:

Draw something RED 

(which is a Christmas colour)

November 19th

Welcome back from our 2 week break. Here are the winners from our "Dragon" challenge.

Factionless Winner:

 Isic: A Blizzflake Guardian Dragon

Erudite Winner:

A Cloud/Air Dragon

Amity Winner:

An Odd Dragon that was crossbred with a scorpion, but eats children's cereal and replacing it with broccoli!

You all did an excellent job!

Now on to a little bit of sad news, we only have 3 classes left this session. We have all been working so hard that we haven't noticed the time flying by. So we need to finish off the projects we are currently working on and still have time to work on our fairy house lanterns as well as the storyboards for the lantern walk. We sure have a lot to do in this next 3-4 weeks.

This weeks sketchbook assignment is to draw something: "layered"

(Hint: I need to be able to see the layers)

I'll post more photos of our current projects next week!!

As well as a list of projects that will need to be completed for our next art show. Which reminds me, our next art show will not be until January so we can include the storyboards we are painting for the lantern walk.

November 5

Today was a very successfully productive day in class.

Here are the winners from our Halloween "Scare Me" challenge:

Factionless Winner:

Erudite Winner:

Amity Winner:

Scariest thing to me is a world without happiness, chocolate, and art!

And here is mine:

My daughter is afraid of clowns.....so of course I had to draw and evil clown!

This week the artists had to draw a Fairy House. Here are the winners:

Factionless Winner:

Erudite Winner:

Amity Winner:

Congrats to all our winners!

This week's assignment is a 2 week assignment as we have no class next week. We will be drawing "realistic" dragons. 

Make sure you decide on:

1. Type of dragon (Water, Fire, Death, Earth etc)

2. Scales to match your type

3. Wings to match

4. Tail to match

5. Feet to match

After seeing the detail you guys were able to draw your owls with I know that this won't be too much of a challenge. Here is what we drew to get us inspired:

Step by Step How to Draw a Dragon

Check out on Pinterest Art Club board

Art Club Pinterest Board

There are great pins on the different types of scales, wings, and tails.

October 29th

Wow, I'm quite surprised at how fast time goes by when we are all so busy working on amazing projects.

Three week's ago our sketchbook assignment was to draw a stack of teacups. Here 2 of the winners from that week. (If you are the third, please come see me during class)

Two week's ago sketchbook assignment was to draw an Owl. I know I made this one hard to think outside the box, as I try to get you guys to do but I promised this weeks would be wide open. Here are the owls that the class drew.

I'm amazed at the details you all went into on these drawings. Great work!!

Ok and as promised, last week's sketchbook assignment was to "Scare Me" with something spooky, gory, or frightening. I forgot to take photos of the winners but I will post them with next classes blog.

In class we continue to work on the 3 different projects.

1. Melted Wax Canvas

2. Large 3D Letters

3. Water Colour Pumpkins (which I think are finally complete)

Here are a few pics of you guys hard at work!

Finishing up the Watercolour Pumpkin

Prepping for the Melted Wax Canvas

Putting finishing details on to her Melted Wax Canvas

Cutting our the Large 3D Letters 

(the hallway was the only place big enough for all 3 of them to work together)

As of this coming week we are starting something brand new and so exciting. I can't wait to tell you all about it! And we even have a guest or two popping in to talk to us about it as well. Oh the suspense........

October 8th

Well this session we are going to be doing a few things differently. For starters we will not all be working on the same project at the same time. Today we started 2 new projects: Melted Crayon Art & Large 3D letters. Due to a limited amount of supplies only 2-3 students can work at a time. For example: there are only 3 heat guns so only 3 students can do the melted crayon art at a time. So it means that the students are spread out among 3 different classrooms and may have to wait for me to come around if you have any questions. 

This week we also took a look at a new artist:

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock was an American Painter from the 50's. He was a major artist in the Abstract Expressionism movement. He was a "drip" style artist, with extra large canvas that he painted on the floor instead of on an easel. Here is a few photos of Jackson Pollock painting.

And here are a 2 of my favourite Jackson Pollock paintings:

Alchemy (1947)

Full Fathom Five (1947)

It's unfortunate that Jackson Pollock died at the age of 44 (1956) in a car accident. I would've loved to see what else he would've painted in the 1960's.

In our first Art Club class we voted on what we should call our artist groups. Since it was a tie vote twice, we brought in another student to break the vote. We will officially call our groups after the Divergent Factions. Groups will be named:

Amity

"Amity farm the land. They are all about kindness, and harmony, always happy"

(Amity - Divergent Wiki)

Erudite

"The smart ones, the ones value knowledge and logic are Erudite. They know everything."

(Erudite - Divergent Wiki)

Factionless

"The factualness, the ones who don't fit anywhere." 

(Factualness - Divergent Wiki)

Since I did not have a chance to photograph last week's sketchbook winners I will post them with this weeks winners in next weeks blog. However I have not posted the sketchbook winners from our first sketchbook assignment: draw something with a triangle shape.

Here are the sketchbook winners from our first sketchbook assignment:

Winner from the "Amity" group

Winner from the "Erudite" group

Winner from the "Factionless" group

This week's sketchbook assignment is to draw a stack of teacups. 

If you need inspiration, check here:

How to draw a teacup

A stack of teacups

This stack is the type I'm looking for. They have a 3D look like the teacups really do sit inside each other.

This stack of tea cups are flat and straight. Try to make your stack of tea cups look more "real".

My last bit of advice is the differences between a teacup and a coffee mug.

A teacup is smaller in height, rounded near the bottom, has a shaped handle and a saucer to rest on.

A coffee mug is taller, with straight sides and simple handle.

Remember when making you stacks the "Rule of Odds", so I should see stacks of 3, 5 or more! Happy drawing!!

October 1

I'm so glad to be back in the art studio. This week we are wrapping up our pumpkin watercolour painting, and they look great. I will post a few pictures next week. 

We also started to design our next project as well. We will be doing a melted wax crayon canvas. There are 3 different techniques to chose from.

1. Drip style

2. Nebula style

3. Splat style

(photo is from Artistjunkie.com)

Each artist needs to pitch an idea for their wax canvas to me before they start to prep. This way I can guide you to push your creativity just a little more.

We also handed out letters for the Extra Large 3D cardboard letter assignment that we will be doing. The letters need to be a minimum of 24" in at least one direction. I will demo the 3D portion in class. But as a sneak peak check out this photo from "Apex Elementary Art" blog.

Our letters will eventually spell something. Once we are all done I'll let you guys figure it out.

Last week's sketchbook winners are:

Very well done for Romero Britto! This week's sketchbook assignment is to draw an "eye". And the only rule I'm giving you is that it can't be human.