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!