October 20th

Art Club is back and is in full swing! I'm so happy to be back with all you lil' artists that are so eager to learn anything art! There are many new faces, so let's make sure to welcome them, and help them feel like part of our little group.

So today we started to make Bell/Bead Spiders. The original inspiration came from a pin on Pinterest, check it out:

Bead Spider Tutorial

But unfortunately purchasing the large beads for this tutorial were out of the Art Club's budget. So I remembered some Bell spiders I bought 10 years ago from Hallmark and thought we could give the tutorial a twist.

And this is what happened! The spider in the middle is the one I purchased many years ago, and the other ones I made as samples. I can't wait to see how the rest will turn out.

Our first sketchbook assignment was to draw our favourite character:

Everyone from the Mad Hatter to Wall.E!

Here are this weeks winners:

Zero:

The Mad Hatter

Sally:

The Queen of Hearts

Oogie Boogie:

Pascal playing Hide 'n Seek

Jack Skellington:

Starfire from Teen Titans

Congrats to our Winners!!

Next week's sketchbook assignment, please draw:

 A Zombie 

Mainly because I'm a huge fan of Halloween!! And what is Halloween without a zombie or two?

October 13th

Welcome back to this year's edition of 

the Art Club.

This is going to be an amazingly creative year. Our theme for this Fall/Winter session is:

We will once again be split into 4 groups for the sketchbook challenges. They are:

Zero

Sally

Oogie Boogie

Jack Skellington

Let's get started! Now that we've decorated our sketchbook covers, it's time to start our drawing challenges. Our first challenge will be an open subject, easy to do......or is it? 

This week please draw:

 your favourite character!

In The News

We may not have made it to the Facebook page but we are in the news!! Checkout page 17!

Just in case you haven't read the newspaper this week:

I hope this is clear enough to read. If not please go buy a copy of this weeks Westlock Newspaper.

Congrats to all the artists in St. Mary's Art Club, but especially Claire, Alex & Emily who were mentioned in the article.

The Year End Show

So here it is folks, just in case you missed our year end show. It was our best show yet, a room full of amazing work you guys made.

And now to get a little closer...

Silhouette Paintings

Watercolour Pumpkins

Melted Wax Canvas

Weekly Sketchbooks

Artist Pinwheels

Fairy House Lanterns & Lantern Walk Storyboards

Creativity Takes Courage 

We had over 100 people come through and check out our art! Plus the newspaper stopped by and interviewed myself and 4 students. Some of the comments I heard were:

"Oh Wow! This is amazing!"

"Are you sure students made these?"

"This is great! I can't wait to see what you guys make next!"

You guys made me a very proud art teacher today! See you all again in the Fall!!

June 2 - Last Class

Well it's all over folks. Classes have ended for this year. Thank you to all my dedicated students this year. It was an honour to teach you. And you, your family and friends are all invited to stop by the Art Room to see what we have been up to this year.

And we even invited the Westlock News this time. Fingers crossed that they will join us too!

In our last class we finally got to figure out the phrase for the Art Room

It took about 7 minutes and only 1 hint to figure out that it spells:

Creativity takes Courage

Here are the winners from the last sketchbook assignment: "The Dreaded Selfie"

Team Emma:

Team Hook

Team Rumplestiltskin

Team Regina

Now it's time to focus on handing in everything for the up coming Art Show. Please hand in all 'unfinished' art works, as well as sketchbooks (with favourite drawings) to me by Monday.

See you all on Thursday for the show!!

May 12th

The count down begins.....3 more classes to go!

And only 2 more sketchbook challenges!

Last week's sketchbook challenge was to draw something "Ying-Yang" opposites. And I was very impressed with how "out of the box" ideas.

Here are the winners:

Team Emma

Night & Day

(But the one on the right was a little different. She explained as Day dreams, and you dream at night while sleeping. So she turned it into a dream catcher.

They did it again...but this time they totally did it by accident. They both chose their ideas last minute and didn't even talk to each other until the reveal. They sure do think a like.

Team Rumplestiltskin

I love that she included all the opposites in the song "Hot & Cold" by Katy Perry

Team Hook

Batman & Poison Ivy

Team Regina

Red Light Green Light

We are still working on completing projects before our upcoming art show. Time to start working on the invitations!

This weeks sketchbook assignment is to design a custom shoe. I have provided blank shoe templates for Vans, Converse, and Toms.

If you were away please come see me to get your template.

May 5th

So the good news is that we are making great progress in completing our outstanding project that will be in the Year End Art Show (on June 9th). The bad news is that we only have 5 classes left until the show. I'm starting to panic as I always do before the show, and this one will be twice as big as before.

Here are a few pics of us working on getting everything completed, so nice to have the warm weather back so we can continue to melt our wax canvas art.

Our sketchbook assignment last week was to draw "Something Framed". There are so many ways the students could have taken this. For example: window frame, a door frame, an innocent convict, a vehicle has a frame, and so does a home just to name a few. And they actually drew almost all of them, great thinking!!

Here are this week's winners:

Team Emma

Team Rumplestiltskin

Team Hook

And I guess I will post Team Regina later as it seems to be missing from my phone. My apologies to the winner.

This week's sketchbook assignment is to draw "Ying Yang". Which means to draw something opposite, such as Hero/Super Villian, Fire/Ice, Summer/Winter, Love/Hate etc. Get as creative as possible!!