March 5 & 12

Somehow I missed typing up the blog last week so this week I will update both.

Last week was a quiet week since all the elementary artists were at the science fair, but we still had Art club to allow the junior high artists to get a little more caught up. However to be included in the weekly sketchbook challenge all sketchbooks needed to be handed in before Art club began. Here are this weeks winners for the potion bottle challenge:

Gryffindor's Winner

Memory Potion

Ravenclaw's Winner:

Sleeping Potion

And here is my example for the little artists. I made a mermaid potion. 

Next week's sketchbook assignment is to design an original monster. Think about all the pieces before you start to draw. Such as how many arms, eyes, legs. Or what your monster will be covered in, slime, scales, fur etc. Lastly you need to come up with a name for your monster as well.

For the rest of class we just worked on our current project painting on our cans. I hope that within a class or two that we can start wrapping up this project.

This week we started by learning how to draw a Minion from the Despicable Me movies.

All the minions drawn looked fabulous....I'm very impressed how they turned out.

This week's sketchbook assignment was very impressive. There was a lot of thought, effort and time put into all the monsters, which made it very hard to decide who the winner was.

Gryffindor's Winner (Abysslich)

Ravenclaw's Winner (Baby)

This week we have had 3 artists complete their cans and are ready to move on to the next project. So here it is:

Wire words wrapped in yarn

Wire words wrapped in fabric

We will be creating hashtags made out of wire and either fabric or yarn. If you are unfamiliar with hashtags they are a faster way to search for subjects on either Instagram or Twitter. Each artist will come up with an original hashtag that is either inspiring to them or artistic in theme. There is a catch, each hashtag must be a minimum of 4-6" tall. This will make it easier to see on the wall from a distance. 

Here is the start of my example:

My hashtag will say: #inspireothers

Next week (Thursday, March 19th) we will be welcoming a guest into our Art Club. So I'm not sure what all we will be doing this week but I can tell you that it's going to be amazing!!

Oh and this week's sketchbook assignment is to turn a letter of the alphabet into something that starts with that letter. I showed an example of "B is for Butterfly". Please do not write what it is on the page. The picture should tell us exactly what letter and item you chose. Get as creative as you can!

Feb 26

This week we started our warm up drawings with the "squiggle". Students enrolled in our last session loved the squiggle and requested that we do it again. So we squiggle on our papers for 10-30 seconds then try to find something in the squiggles. Our students found anything from a bunny rabbit to Winnie the Pooh. It's a great way to be creative and to "think outside the box". Which seems to be our class motto at times. After this we looked at our latest sketchbook assignments, being our Google "Doodles" as they are called. Google has employees (or Doodlers as they are called) create these doodles, but they do accept submissions of ideas. I will be submitting not only this weeks winner but also a few others I believe that Google may like. Here are some of them:

Ski themed

Monsters Under the Bed

Bird Paradise

St. Patrick's Day

Down the Drain

This week we named our 2 groups in our classroom. Our group names this session will be Harry Potter themed; Team Gryffindor & Team Ravenclaw. 

The rest of class was spent working on our current projects. Still waiting for 3 more Candy Collage pieces to come in, please finish those up ASAP. Once all are complete I will post a photo of the whole collage.

This week's sketchbook assignment is to design a "potion bottle". Please have a theme for your bottle. As an example: If you are making a love potion the bottle should be red and covered in hearts, or if you are making a death potion the bottle should be black covered in skulls. Be creative and show me what kind of potion you would love to have.

I know that next week will be quiet as some of the younger grades will be at the Science Fair but there will still be class to allow other kids to catch up a little more. If you would like to have your potion bottle in the weekly challenge please hand it in to me either Wednesday in the kindergarten room or Thursday after school as you are heading to the Science Fair. And good luck to all participants in the fair.

 I will let you know our new sketchbook assignment on Friday if you stop in to see me at lunch time.