FOOTPRINTS ON THE BEACH

Nothing is more relaxing than taking a summer stroll on the beach......ocean breezes, water lapping through your toes, and the occasional crab sidewinding it's way to the surf!  Ahhhh....summer.  My younger Art students captured this lazy feeling with their footprint paintings!  If you listen carefully, you can almost hear the rolling of the waves and the cry of the seaguls.  Happy summer everyone!!

BUTTON...BUTTON!!

Who has the button!! Why, they are in the trees!  My younger class combined some of their art skills learned this year and a new use for buttons to make this colorful painting of a spring tree.  The colors of the sky swirl brilliantly around these stately trees.  I must say that these paintings will catch the eye of anyone passing through a room!

SHARPIE PRINTS

Colorful designs flowed from the imaginations of my younger Art students.  Using Styrofoam, the students made printing blocks and printed them using Sharpie markers as their color source. What a fun lesson in printmaking!

Watercolor Pets!

Negative/Positive space, watercolor techniques using alcohol, salt, and plastic wrap were the main concepts studied by my older, young artists this month. These artists demonstrated how to masque out spaces so as to leave just the positive image of their favorite pet. From chickens to cows to cats and dogs, these artists created some amazing pet portraits!

FISH RELIEFS

After studying the world of the ocean last month, my art students created clay fish reliefs this month.  Colorful and 3D, these amazing fish look like they can swim away at any moment!

WHAT DO I SEE!!

Do I really see what I think I see? Using optical illusion techniques, my art students created two-dimensional images which give the feel of  three-dimensional art.  The viewer is pulled down the rabbit hole to a world far, far away! Color, line, and shading made this illusion possible! Take a look and enter the world of the artists' imagination!

UNDER THE SEA

Wow!  Lots to see underneath the ocean waves!  My younger students created their own sea world.  Using a marbling technique they made the "world" for their ocean creatures. The young artists then made colorful fish, coral, plants, etc. to live in their watery world!!  Marblelous!