February 25

Welcome Back Artists!

It was great to be back in the Art room and have almost everyone there. 

Our first 2 sketchbook assignments were:

1. Draw your favourite animal

Try not to get too complicated as this will tie into another project later in our session. But at the same time try not to go too average as well, it will be harder if 5 of you all chose to go with a dog.

2. Draw your favourite food

I found this one quite difficult because I love food. I narrowed it down to about 20 foods but finally decided to go with a dessert.

I will post these photos next week as we got so busy that I forgot to take the photos. Oops.

I have also revealed our teams for this session. We will have 4 groups from: 

Once Upon A Time!

We have 4 teams this session to help everyone have a fair chance of winning each week. 

Team Emma

Team Rumplestiltskin

Team Hook

Team Regina

We currently are working on Artist Pin Wheels! Here is where the inspiration came from:

Freckle Photo Blog - Artist Pinwheels!

I changed up some of the artist styles but love the idea of these! 

Here are the artists & styles we will be doing:

1. Piet Mondrian

2. Romero Britto

3. Op Art (Optical)

4. Zendoodle

Then on the back we will be doing splatter artist:

5. Jackson Pollock

Each artist has to come up with a "theme" for their pinwheels then work each triangle to both artist/style & theme. These have been working quite quickly, I'm happy at how eager everyone has been to work on these. We have all kinds of themes, from music, Star Wars, Oilers, and even Emoji's.

Lastly, this week's sketchbook homework is to draw a robot. 

February 11

Welcome back Artists!

I can't wait to see all my little artists again after school today. And we will have a few new faces joining us this session as well. We had 2 artists leave our group, and have 1 new artist joining us for sure, and 2 possible new artists. I guess we will know for sure at 3:30 today!!

Thank you Westlock Home Hardware!

I did however want to send out a huge thank you to our Westlock Home Hardware for asking us to be a part of A Magical Winter's Night Lantern Walk back in December. 

Westlock Home Hardware has donated all 11 of the easels used during the Lantern Walk to our Art Club. 

I can't wait to start our new paintings with them.

Since our new session begins today I will be back tomorrow to update about our current project, as well as what the sketchbook homework will be. Till then "Stay Creative!"

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.