June 4th - Our Last Class

Well June 4th was our last official class but we've been given permission to work at lunch times next week to finish wrapping our wire words. I believe that there is only one Funko! Pop can still to be finished but that everyone else is done. I also think that all but one of the Wire/Pantyhose sculptures are all complete now as well. So we just need to finish wrapping our wire words. If anyone needs help just let me know and I can give you a hand.

On another note I got the Clay Cabins back from firing the other day and they look amazing now that they got a little glaze on them to antique them. Thank you to my neighbour Mary once again for coming in and teaching us how to make these. 

Here are a few of the finished ones:

This one has twists in the windows, and a small flower bed.

This one has great texture, love the chimney.

I loved the attention to detail on this one.

This one has great windows.

I can't wait to display them all at our up coming Art Show on June 18th. I'm still working on the invites for the show, but I hope to have them done by the end of the week.

Since this was our last class there is no sketchbook homework but here are the winners from this week's "Self-Portrait Cartoon"

Ravenclaw's Winner

Hufflepuff's Winner

Gryffindor's Winner

Great job to all the artists. They all turned out very nicely.

Lunch Break Art Club will start on Tuesday as I am on a field trip on Monday and won't be back to the school till 2:30pm.

See you in the Art Room Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday at lunch!

May 21

This week's sketchbook assignment was to draw a hat. The kids drew all kinds of hats. I'm so proud of everyones creativity. Here are this week's winners

Gryffindor's Winner

Ravenclaw's Winner

Hufflepuff's Winner

And here is my hat:

Dates to Remember:

We only have 2 more classes (May 28 & June 4).

 There will be no class on June 11. 

Spring Art Show will be on 

June 18th 1:00 - 6:00pm

This week in class we continued to finish up projects that are in progress. A few artists finished up their Funko Pop cans. Most of the artists are working on their wire and pantyhose sculptures.

Next week I'll put up lists of the projects that are still in need of being finished.

This week's sketchbook assignments were quotes that I have asked the kids to draw. Then I let the kids pick one for me. Here will be my quote to draw this week:

"Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind"

May 14

This week we had a guest artist come in and teach us about clay. 

We would like to thank Mary for coming in and teaching us how to create some beautiful clay cabins.

They look amazing and weren't even that hard to make. Here are a few photos from last class.

I unfortunately can't show you the final results because Mary took the cabins with her. They need to dry for a few days and then be put into a ceramic kiln for firing. We should get the finished clay cabins back before our final Spring Art Show in June. 

Sketchbooks this week were very well done, which makes it yet another hard decision to pick this week's winners. But here they are:

Ravenclaw's Winner

Hufflepuff's Winner

Gryffindor has 2 winner's. Great job girls - I totally didn't see this coming!

Next week's sketchbook assignment is to draw a hat. Any kind of hat! Here is a little inspiration:

Can't wait to see how creative you can be. Try to think outside of the box!!

May 7

This week we will be worked on the details for our Wire sculptures. These are almost finished and starting to look great. We can now start to finish off all of our unfinished projects. 

Here is a list of project that we have done this session.

1. Candy Collage (finished)

2. Funko Pop Cans 

3. Wire Hashtags

4. Photo Challenge

5. Pantyhose Sculptures

If there are enough people that complete the work we may still have time for one last quick project to do. But we will have to wait and see how things go. I believe there are still six people that are working on the Funko Pop can project still. 

Don't forget to email or bring your photo for the Photo Challenge into class for me to get printed for our Art show. Email them to: stonesinc@yahoo.com or bring them in on a USB card and I can upload them.

Plus next week we have another guest artist in our classroom. Mary will be coming in to teach us all about clay. Mary will be showing us some simple techniques to make beautiful clay cabins. I can't wait to see how these turn out.

Here are this week's sketchbook winners!!

Ravenclaw's Winner

Hufflepuff's Winner

Gryffindor's Winner

And here is my shoe (plus my inspiration):

I would love Disney to create all these shoe ornaments into real shoes I can wear! Two of my favourite things in one; shoes & Disney!

Next week's sketchbook assignment is to draw a board game of any kind. But remember if you draw a deck of cards I should be able to tell by the drawing what kind of game you are playing. Here is some inspiration for you:

Let's see what you can come up with. Happy Drawing!!

April 30

I do apologize for not writing the blog for the past couple of weeks. It has been very busy around our house between band and dance. So let's catch up on what we have been up to in the Art room with Art Club.

On April 30 we started a new project with wood, wire, and pantyhose. I know it's a weird collection of items but they turn out very interesting in the end. Here is the example that sparked this project:

  

We started by stapling a 10' piece of wire to a wooden square block, then each student twisted and bent the wire in any way that they wanted. When they were done bending the wire into the shape they liked we covered it in pantyhose. This is when the true shape starts to take shape. They then went back to the drawing board so to speak, re-shaping the wire into a shape they found.

 Some found amazing things. Here are a few things they found:

A Cobra

A Rose with petals

A Ghost

Here is my sample with just a base coat on it. At first it kind of looks like a bunny.:

And here is the finished product:

Turns out my sculpture looked more like a puppy dog.

Last week's sketchbook assignment was to create an original Super Hero Symbol. Here are the winners.

Ravenclaw's Winner

Hufflepuff's Winner:

Gryffindor's Winner

This week's sketchbook assignment was to take a name and mirror it on the page. Then find something other than a bug to make it look like. Here is a sample:

I will need to photograph the winners and post them next week. For some reason in all our excitement they photos didn't get taken.

Sketchbook homework for next week is to draw a shoe. I thought we would do something a little simple for once. You can draw any kind of shoe you would like. Design a shoe, a shoe that you love to wear, and expensive shoe you would like to own one day, any shoe you like.

April 9th

Having Tumbleweed Portraits and Photography come into the classroom was a blast. Now I get to see if my little artists learned anything from our guest artist. The assignment was to take a photo keeping in mind the rule of thirds that Angela taught us.

Here is Angela's example just for a quick reminder:

Here are a few photos that I received.

Rule of Thirds Photo Challenge

Here are the photo challenge winners:

Here is my photo for this challenge as well:

There will be more photos from the challenge to post at a later date.

As promised I have taken photos of our latest projects and can now post a few of the finished products. These are our finished Funko Pop cans:

Funko Pop! Art Cans

The Evil Queen from Snow White & the Seven Dwarves

Thumper from Bambi

Scrump from Lilo & Stitch

Cake from Adventure Time

Cogsworth from Beauty & the Beast

Bruce from Finding Nemo

Dory from Finding Nemo

I'm very proud of how our second project is turning out. The cans all look so cute. So far there are 7 artists complete and have moved on to the wire word project. There are 4 more artists that are very close to finishing as well. Artists that are not done their cans will not be able to do the wire word project at this time but there may still be time before the end of this session to do one. 

Next week I will post the pics of last week's sketchbook assignment of the 4 Easter Detail pics as well as this week's sketchbook assignment. Which is for the artists to design an original super hero logo. It has to be an original symbol, nothing I could've seen before. Here are some well known super hero logos just in case you need some inspiration for a starting point.

April 23 there will not be Art Club.

 Due to unforeseen circumstances there has been a scheduling conflict with a dance competition in St. Albert. So we will continue with Art Club again on April 30.