January 29

Our warm up drawing exercise this week was to learn how to draw eyes. Here is what we learned:

I pinned this picture onto our Pinterest board for Art Club. You can find the pin here:

Art Club Board - Drawing Eyes

We then continued to work on the candy collage. By the end of class 5 pieces of the collage are complete. By the look of the rest of the artists we should be able to wrap up our first group project by our next class.

Our sketchbook assignment this week is to design a well known character into a pop can. I know this sounds a little weird but just hang in there. Here is where the original idea came from:

Art Club Board - Re-purpose soda cans

But the different twist came from the kids. They keep asking if they can make projects with well known characters such as Mickey Mouse or Batman. So this project the kids got to pick their own character but it had to start out as a "Pop Figurine" from the funko.com website. Each student picked a character that had not been already chosen so there will not be any duplicates. This is an example of a "Pop figurine" as well as the character I will be designing:

Pop! Marvel: Captain America

Now to turn it into a pop can design. I look forward to seeing your creations. Oh and you can't draw outside the pop can lines.

Here is the Pop can outline that I gave to each of the students to trace into their sketchbooks:

I know we were missing a few students because of the basketball game, so please come to see me in the kindergarten room at lunch time on Monday as we do not have Art Club this week due to Teacher's Convention. This way I can give you the can outline and pick a character for you to draw. I have the list of characters that have already been chosen. See you all on February 12th.

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....